Zadok <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>  wrote:
 > with the 4.4BSD X server... after some really minor work it compiled
 > happily, looked fast and - crashed. the heartbeat LED still flickered just
 > like normal, but a lot of moving "streaks" appeared on the screen and the
 > machine didn't do anything... for me it looked like a blitter error or

I see that occasionally with the X server distributed on ftp.netbsd.org...

It generally happens in 'xv' with *some* images or very occasionally with
netscape.  It looks like a noisy tv station or snow flying across the
screen...

This warms the cockles of my heart though:

[lager hpeyerl 107 ]; w
 7:03AM  up 89 days, 16:18, 8 users, load averages: 0.22, 0.21, 0.14