Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!sq!lee From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Pic on ISC's 386/ix 2.0.2 locks system hard. Message-ID: <1989Dec3.012702.27106@sq.sq.com> Date: 3 Dec 89 01:27:02 GMT References: <1989Nov28.014033.4277@virtech.uucp> Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd Lines: 27 [sorry if I'm a few days behind, news takes longer to reach us because the Canadian cold weather reduces the speed of light :-)] In article <1989Nov28.014033.4277@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >In article , larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes: >> This happened with our 1.0.6 system as well. When ever anyone here >> runs pic (DWB 2.0), our system would lock up so hard, that the only >> recourse was to power off the computer. I had to remove pic. > >Not that this is any real help..... >I have Elan's EROFF Luck you.... I have had problems with both Elan's pic and SoftQuad's sqpic, but determined in the end that the problem was that the documentation for the Acer 386 motherboard I was using was in error, and I had the jumpers for whether or not a 387 is present set incorrectly. Another symptom was that /etc/dfspace hung (in awk), making it a little hard to log on... Check that your CMOS Setup configuration has the '387 listed. Lee -- Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!] lee@sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England, until Christmas) utai!anduk.uucp!lee (after Christmas) ...striving to promote the interproduction of epimorphistic conformability