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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] bug report: X386 1.2E fails x11perf -wdcircle100
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 07:17:33 GMT
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References: <EICHIN.92Sep22234427@tsx-11.mit.edu>
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In article <EICHIN.92Sep22234427@tsx-11.mit.edu> eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
>Using the server from ports/x11 (not the new Xfree86, the earlier one)
>I ran x11perf -all. It went through many of the tests, but when it got
>to the test for "100-pixel wide dashed circle" it drew one dashed
>circle (messed up near the top) and then froze (at first, I didn't
>realize it died, since the screen didn't change, but I typed some
>commands and the shell reacted to them. I ran xinit from an rlogin
>session, and as soon as that circle was drawn, I got "lost connection
>to X server" from xinit.)
Well x11perf -wd100 on the latest verion of XFree86 mostly works, when
it finishes I get a floating point exception, but the server and the
xterm keeps on ticking.

>	It also crashes after adding NoSpeedUp to my Xconfig.
>If it matters (which I doubt) I'm using a 486 and an ET4000 card.
Do you care to send me a stack trace and your Xconfig.

Also, this problem is not reproducible with the latest version
of XFree86 at least my 486 and et4000 card.

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