[rescue] Solaris 9 woes

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:38:53AM -0600, Jody Stephens wrote:
> I finally got some solaris 9 cd's off of a friend. After
> much travail I finally got it installed on my Sparc20
> (1xSM-71, 1XSM-61, 4MB VSIMM). Everything seems to work
> fine (and faster too), except that the Xserver will lock
> up, but only, it seems, when I use a graphical web browser
> (Netscape 4, and Opera 5 both do it). And this is a hard
> lock (unlike my usual experience with sun kit) nothing
> responds, even a L1-A. Nothing is reported to the logs
> (/var/dt/Xerrors, ~/.dt/errorlogs, dmesg, messages, etc.)
> as far as I can tell. I have already installed the 
> reccomended patch cluster. I'm having no luck searching
> for an additional patch. 
> 
> Has anyone else seen a similar behavior? Or have some
> advice?  

Have you tried Mozilla?  I don't see why a web browser should lock it up
more than anything else.  What about the Gimp or other heavy graphical apps?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd