[16653] in Athena Bugs
Re: Ultra 10 lockup problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jan 28 14:35:03 1999
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:45:29 EST."
<199901271745.MAA00893@nephthys.grey17.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:34:58 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>>I've been trying to install a set of physics simulations for a faculty
>>member which I received in binary form- I believe they are SunOS
>>binaries but whatever they are, they run fine on everything except
>>Ultra 10s (ours, allegretto, anyway). It completely locks up the
>>machine. For a sample, you can try "add 6.730; ziman"
>There are a number of fixes to frame buffer drivers in the 8.2.17
>patch release, which is out in the dev cell. If you can reproduce the
>problem on a machine running 8.2.17, then we should start worrying
>about it, but trying to do that is the first step.
Looking good so far! Thanks to Abby installing 8.2.17 on allegretto, I
just tested them and all now appear to work properly.
A.
