RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I do not mean you should... But you can download Solaris8 (x86 or Sparc)
free of cost from www.sun.com.  It can coexists with Linux and Windows...
though a bit tricky with linux, because RedHat Linux starting from 5.2
version label swap partition as x86 and so does Solaris, from long time.
Which causes swap partition over written...

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:07 PM
> To: Oliver S Dungey; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
> 
> 
> Oliver,
> 
> > Yes. I have posted the information as requested.
> 
> I have just been working on adding it to the FAQ.
> 
> > I don't really know who's bugs these are but they should not really 
> > cause a crash in Xfree, maybe some warnings but not a full on crash.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any interest in this area and I can provide 
> > more information.
> 
> Well, I don't generally have access to Solaris for testing, 
> but if you built a debug version of Cygwin/XFree86, and ran 
> it via gdb, you could give us much more detailed information 
> about the crashes that might enable us to actually fix some 
> of them.  Instructions for building a debug version of 
> Cygwin/XFree86 are in the Contributor's Guide: 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/
> 
> On a side note, have you 
> installed and tested the Test42 server?  I wonder if it would 
> fix some of the crashes that you are reporting. 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Harold
>