Subject: Re: X11
To: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 05/06/2002 10:52:19
Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On the 8bit Katamandu/Topcat boards (according to docs my board is the
> Kaamandu, but according to the kernel it's a topcat, I'm not sure
> which to believe, it's HP part number is A1416A) the Xhpux causes a
> kernel panic when exiting. As far as I know the reasons are partly
> known, but no convincing solution has yet been introduced. I have made
> a very crude modification, hard-wiring the base address of the frame
> buffer memory, which seems to do the trick, I use the machine as an
> X-Terminal for weeks on end without crash. I will not release the
> modification, since it is clearly the Wrong Thing (I do not have the
> slightest idea how to do the Right Thing here), but if anyone really
> needs it, I will send the modified file.
Sure. File a PR.
-- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>