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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: [386bsd] bug report: X386 1.2E fails x11perf -wdcircle100 Message-ID: <1992Sep23.130814.10793@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <EICHIN.92Sep22234427@tsx-11.mit.edu> <=a8n_bf.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 13:08:14 GMT Lines: 32 In article <=a8n_bf.hasty@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <EICHIN.92Sep22234427@tsx-11.mit.edu> eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes: >>Using the server from ports/x11 (not the new Xfree86, the earlier one) >>I ran x11perf -all. It went through many of the tests, but when it got >>to the test for "100-pixel wide dashed circle" it drew one dashed >>circle (messed up near the top) and then froze (at first, I didn't >>realize it died, since the screen didn't change, but I typed some >>commands and the shell reacted to them. I ran xinit from an rlogin >>session, and as soon as that circle was drawn, I got "lost connection >>to X server" from xinit.) >Well x11perf -wd100 on the latest verion of XFree86 mostly works, when >it finishes I get a floating point exception, but the server and the >xterm keeps on ticking. > >> It also crashes after adding NoSpeedUp to my Xconfig. >>If it matters (which I doubt) I'm using a 486 and an ET4000 card. >Do you care to send me a stack trace and your Xconfig. > >Also, this problem is not reproducible with the latest version >of XFree86 at least my 486 and et4000 card. I have reproduced the problem using the latest (beta) mono server. My first thoughts were that it might be a floating point problem. The problem does not occur on SVR4. (BTW, I ran x11perf from my SVR4 box -- only the server was running on the 386BSD box.) David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------