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Re: xfree86

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 17 11:20:28 1993

From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 11:19:43 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU


xlogin hung in screensaver mode today and had to be killed from the
console.  I have a theory on why this is happening:

From the XFree-2.0 README:

> The accelerated servers require a kernel greater than or equal to
> 0.99pl13 because they use the mmap() system call (the implementation
> in earlier kernels does not work correctly).

~% uname --release
0.99.10

I will update the kernel when I find out what the last stable release was.

-Sal.

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