David,
I emailed my details on what I have done on two machines that are
exhibiting this problem. Because these machines are different in
their hardware and have not expressed the problem in the past, I
dont think its a hardware issue.
Before the new binutils both machines did not have this problem.
I dont know if it is the binutils change that has caused this problem
as I do not have the time to exhaustively test.
My email was to try to get others to reproduce the problem hence I
gave details on what I did.
So, has anyone done the procedure I have and seen or not seen the
problem where xaos version 3.0 draws garbage when renderring. (run
xaos and press the 'a' key).
I haven't given kernel config files or hardware details because I
dont think its relevant until someone can say "I have done the steps
you have outlined and I dont see you problem".
I do not have time to debug this myself (I would also need to learn a
few things) however, I have been running -CURRENT for more than 5 years
and know that I have upgraded my software correctly and am fairly
convinced that hardware is not an issue so I am reporting this problem
to see if others can reproduce it as a service to the FreeBSD community
(I wont even charge for it!).
I also do not intend to report this to the binutils maintainers because
it may be a FreeBSD issue, not a binutils issue.
David O'Brien wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:24:24AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > Has anyone tried the specific instructions I gave to reproduce
> > the problem ?
>
> These instructions do things at too high a level.
>
> > i.e.:
> >
> > - make world
> > - making and installing a new kernel
> > - mergemaster
> > - reboot
>
> All fine.
>
> > - deletion of ALL installed ports
> > - recompile of every essential port (inc XFree 3.3.6)
>
> This doesn't give me anything to debug. I need to know a specific source
> file. Sending this bug report plus instructions to reproduce to the
> Binutils maintainers will get no where.
>
> --
> -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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