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From: Mats Lofkvist <mal@bengt.algonet.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 02 Jun 1997 00:40:39 +0200
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stephen farrell <stephen+usenet@farrell.org> writes:
>
> Mats Lofkvist <mal@bengt.algonet.se> writes:
>
> >
> > Text only applications work for me, but I have not been able to make
> > graphics programs run (*). I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and jdk-1.1.1-linux-v2,
> > the linux compat libs package is upgraded to linux_lib-2.4.
> >
> > _
> > Mats Lofkvist
> > mal@algonet.se
> >
> >
> > (*) The X window won't show up at all and the application seems to be idle
> > waiting for input. A few times when running ktrace on java, the window
> > _did_ show up, some weird timing and/or signal problem here??
>
> Thanks for the response. FWIW, there is a v3 available at blackdown,
> which is probably worth trying...
>
I just changed to jdk-1.1.1-linux-v3 and the graphics now works.
Thanks for the pointer!
(I also upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.2 but I'm quite sure the fix is in the
jdk, the readme says "Version 3 fixes a bug where accept() would hang
until it was woken by a SIGIO."...)
_
Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se