On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, matthew green wrote:

> 
> [ this is prolly better discussed on the list ]
>    
>    I just setup a NetBSD box on a sparc IPC.  It's running the 
>    SPARC_SCSI3 binary kernel.  I untarred your X11R6 distribution 
>    and when I run it, I get:
>    
>    	/netbsd	zs1b: fifo overrun.
>    
>    I was wondering if you would happen to have seen this error before?
>    It occurs when I move the mouse in X while X just hangs.
> 
> zs1b is the modem's serial port.  i get those about once a week
> on my elc, but it's never been a problem.
> 
> how far does X get ?
> 

The screen goes into it's grey loading color.  The cursor exists and
is able to move around the screen, which causes the fifo overrun error
when I touch the mouse.  It just hangs from here.  Then I have to 
reboot.  I have 64 megs of swap and 16 megs of ram for the sparc IPC.

> .mrg.
> 

Dave.