Very Computer

I've installed Solaris 2.1 a few weeks ago, and I'm not impressed
with how stable the system is. (Especially openwindows).
I'm running this on a Dell ME with an Adaptec 1740 SCSI controller
and 3COM579 Ethernet card.

The problems I've encountered so far are:

- Openwin hangs on startup.  This happens about every third time
  I start it.  The screen goes yellow and nothing happens as the
  video card switches from text mode to graphics mode.

- File manager crashes.  It's possible to make the trash can crash ( and
  leave a core dump in the trash can.)

- Once I got an I/O error while copying to disk, and the screen went
  blank.  Suddenly the machine rebooted.

- Sometimes the cursor disappeares in text mode.

- Some programs can stop openwin from reacting.  The only way out is
  to telnet in from another computer and kill the process.

Does this happen to everyone else ?
I've not added any patches to the system, as they're a bit hard to get
now, with Sun's new policy for distribution of patches.
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  | |       |                         Anders Skar
  |_|  _   _|  _   _  _      Trondheim College of Engineering

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   Why run Windows when Dosshell is faster and offers taskswitching too?

Sounds a lot like my brief experience with 3.1 x86. Now we simply don't run
Openwindows at all - in fact, we only ever access the machine via telnet, as
tre lack of virtual consoles was too much for me!

Having said that, it hasn't crashed since we stopped trying to use X...

-Barry

: Hi!

: I've installed Solaris 2.1 a few weeks ago, and I'm not impressed
: with how stable the system is. (Especially openwindows).
: I'm running this on a Dell ME with an Adaptec 1740 SCSI controller
: and 3COM579 Ethernet card.

: The problems I've encountered so far are:

: - Openwin hangs on startup.  This happens about every third time
:   I start it.  The screen goes yellow and nothing happens as the
:   video card switches from text mode to graphics mode.

: - File manager crashes.  It's possible to make the trash can crash ( and
:   leave a core dump in the trash can.)

: - Once I got an I/O error while copying to disk, and the screen went
:   blank.  Suddenly the machine rebooted.

: - Sometimes the cursor disappeares in text mode.
:    
: - Some programs can stop openwin from reacting.  The only way out is
:   to telnet in from another computer and kill the process.

: Does this happen to everyone else ?
: I've not added any patches to the system, as they're a bit hard to get
: now, with Sun's new policy for distribution of patches.
: __________________________________________________________________________
:    _
:   | |       |                         Anders Skar
:   |_|  _   _|  _   _  _      Trondheim College of Engineering

:   | | | | |_| |_  |   _|
: __________________________________________________________________________
:    Why run Windows when Dosshell is faster and offers taskswitching too?

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See the XFree86 2.1 README.SOLX86.

(Unfortunately, I hear they went away in 2.4EA :(   )

Quote:>Having said that, it hasn't crashed since we stopped trying to use X...

(Granted I'm probably a little biased, I'm one of the porters)

Just as a FYI, XFree86 2.1 is available from ftp.x.org, in
/contrib/XFree86

Quote:>-Barry

Tonights forcast: Increasing dark, with dark continuing through out the night.

Try duplicating the /etc/inittab line running /dev/console for
/dev/vt01 (etc.), and there you are.
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Quote:>Try duplicating the /etc/inittab line running /dev/console for
>/dev/vt01 (etc.), and there you are.

See the README.SOLX86 at your local XFree86 ftp site.  It
explains it (hopefully) much better.

Tonights forcast: Increasing dark, with dark continuing through out the night.