Re: Complete lock of 2.1.38 w X and Netscape

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 19 May 1997 08:48:50 +0200 (CEST)


>I have also had 2.1.38 lock with me while running X (XFree86 3.2) and
>Netscape. (sorry if this has been resolved... I get the kernel digest).

Me too, using [pre-2.1.38-1] and Netscape 3.01 with XFree86 3.2.

>
>It was a complete lock. No console switching, no mouse movement, even my
>LED CPU status on the paralell port froze. At the time Netscape 3.01 was
>loading a file (no Java or anything fancy.. it was
>http://afterstep.edoc.com if you must know).

I had the same problem yesterday. I don' t remember the http://... where I
had the lock.

I thought the lock was caused from the AWE32 0.4.0 driver unstable, but
sound card was not used when the lock was started.
>
>Anyway I have a 486DX2 66, 20 Meg of Ram. I have never had this happen

I have an Intel Pentium 166 with 32Mega of Ram. I have similar problem
sometimes when I try to use the EMU8K of my awe32 with drvmidi. If you
want never have problems as this you must use 2.0 kernel and stable
version of sofware obviously.

>before. I am thinking maybe it has something wrong with netscape. My
>hardware doesn't really have the RAM to run netscape (w/o swapping) so I
>usually run it remotely and pipe it over to my display. But today I
>thought I would run it locally, and that is when the whole machine
>locked.
>It seems everyone else with the problem have been running netscape too?
>hardware doesn't really have the RAM to run netscape (w/o swapping) so I
>usually run it remotely and pipe it over to my display. But today I
>thought I would run it locally, and that is when the whole machine
>locked.
>It seems everyone else with the problem have been running netscape too?
>
>Well I hope this helps in some way. I have never COMPLETELY locked Linux
>before, and it scared me. Anyway, later.

I hope this helps in some way too :)

Bye

Andrea Arcangeli
arcangeli@mbox.queen.it

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