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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!psinntp!psinntp!NetVision.net.il!Burka.NetVision.net.il!gena From: gena@Burka.NetVision.net.il (Gennady Sorokopud) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Using XFree 3.1 on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1: fails badly. Date: 7 Oct 1994 08:27:23 GMT Organization: NetVision USENET Site. Lines: 77 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3730pb$s32@NS.netvision.net.il> References: <NJW.94Oct6094739@barney.cs.city.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: burka.netvision.net.il X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nick Williams (njw@cs.city.ac.uk) wrote: : Seeing that 3.1 was kind of available, I tried using it yesterday, : with complete failure. Is 3.1 "released" yet? : The problems I had were both in compiling from source and using the : pre-compiled binaries. : 1) In the source, the Imakefiles are a bit broken: within the xfree86 : makefile, it uses a macro InstallGenManPageLong (I think that was it's : name), which is not defined anywhere. Also, the : vga256/drivers/Imakefile will not build an SVGA server: the Imakefile : configurations simply don't setup right stuff. With that said, I : managed to play around with these and get a server running. It : crashed. Crashed quite a bit in fact. Once, when the server seemed in : a bad state, I killed the server and the machine panic'd (closing a : file descriptor which was already closed). Not so good. : 2) I then grabbed the XF86_SVGA binary distribution and attempted : that. Seems more robust, however the server crashes quite frequently, : with signals 6, 8 and 11. Here's a sample trace, after the X server : reported a signal 8: : #1 0x828deb6 in end () : #2 0x49aa6 in ddxGiveUp () : #3 0x49b72 in AbortDDX () : #4 0x52949 in xf86SigHandler () : #5 0xefbfe108 in end () : #6 0x92796 in FindBestToScale () : #7 0x94af3 in BitmapOpenScalable () : #8 0x98da2 in FontFileOpenFont () : #9 0x6ef48 in doOpenFont () : #10 0x6f2bf in OpenFont () : #11 0x73bb5 in ProcOpenFont () : #12 0x7a3b8 in SProcOpenFont () : #13 0x7273f in Dispatch () : #14 0x66329 in main () : The above problems are with an ET4000 system. We hope to switch to : using Diamond Stealth boards here RSN, and so we'd appreciate finding : out if XFree86 3.x will actually work before we go and spend the money on : the boards. I noticed the same problem with S3 805C video card , the server crashes quite frequently and exitst with signals 10 or 11. I already reported this problem to XFree86 core team. Anyway i gonna try to track the problem by myself. I'll let you know if i'll find something Regards : -- : Nick Williams, Systems Architecture Research Centre, City University, : London, EC1V 0HB. UK. : Web: http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/finger?njw : E-mail: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (MIME and ATK) : Work Telephone: +44 71 477 8551 : Work Fax: +44 71 477 8587 -- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O Gennady Sorokopud O O System Programmer at NetVision Israel O O Home of Israeli Internet O O E-Mail: gena@netvision.net.il Fax: 972-4-550-122 O O genas@netmanage.co.il O O Tel: work: 972-4-550-123 Address: Sharet st. 21/7 O O home: 972-4-835-227 K. Tivon , Israel O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQBNAi43i2YAAAECANV6d3p8bQLR6Hr2tyd9f4FEUakUIbF0YOtsiil3hR/ebGRe y4EC2Y45ZS7VPiP8Pp8zyAinWEtJ/tBKBYoHdPEABRG0LEdlbm5hZHkgQi4gU29y b2tvcHVkIDxnZW5hQG5ldHZpc2lvbi5uZXQuaWw+ =bvR+ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----