The venerable X/mmap problem

[Justin Hibbits]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 04/26/10 18:38, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>
>> I think that mmap() problem from a year ago (physical memory isn't mapped
>> correctly so writes to the end cause problems) has come back.  I just
>> installed Nathan's 20100418-SNAP snapshot on my G4, and subsequently svn
>> up'd and rebuilt world/kernel.  Since then, going into X causes the
>> machine
>> to hang within a few minutes.  Staying out of X it does not hang.
>>
>>
>>
> Any chance you could capture the panic with dcons and firewire?
> -Nathan
>

I'll give it a shot.  Can I use an OS X client machine to connect to dcons,
or do I need to use FreeBSD?

- Justin