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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:37:14 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful
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> I had already reported that a machine froze hard when manipulating
> windows under rio.
>
> Indeed, nasty things arise when some program is spitting a huge amount
> of text; window is blocking while there is more; I then, in the middle
> of the process, switch to scrolling.
>
> The nasty thing is writing in memory in the wrong place, since the
> machine is hard frozen, and even soft reboot does no cure (I need to
> halt and switch power off to have a really cold reboot).
>
> Is somebody knowledgeable with this part of the code, to have clues
> about where to search for the fault?

what driver are you using?  i assume that this is the standard pc kernel?

- erik