[16652] in Athena Bugs
Re: Ultra 10 lockup problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Wed Jan 27 16:10:10 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:10:06 -0500 (EST)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16651] in Athena Bugs"
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
FWIW, I'm experiencing a similar bug under athena 8.2.17 on an
Ultra-10 with a Creator3D card, but it involves the Macromedia Flash
player, and definitely has something to do with the framebuffer.
I've tried jhawk's suggestion of running a deadman kernel, but that
doesn't seem to help either. It is quite reproducible. I suspect
that the ziman program might do something graphics-wise that tickles a
framebuffer bug as well, but I haven't been able to reproduce it on my
machine. Perhaps a deadman kernel might work on the 6.730 problem? I
can dig up the references if necessary.
More details on my graphics bug:
add outland; add infoagents
setenv NPX_PLUGIN_PATH /mit/outland/arch/@sys/lib/plugins
netscape&
And go to http://www.gabocorp.com/ and start looking through the
samples. At some point, the machine locks up hard enough to require a
power-cycle to reboot. Strangely enough, I can only reproduce this
with both the onboard video and the Creator3D graphics simultaneously
running the X server. If I only run the X server with one frame
buffer at a time, I can't seem to reproduce this.
---Tom
