Re: Newest code crashes Tcl/Tk

[Brian Dunn <bd1 at sysmatrix dot net>]

> > The game is wreckreation, which in this old version is a simpler game with
> > 'good, bad, ugly'.  The games which locked the machine in later versions was
> > also wreckreation.

> You have not seen this problem occur with any other game?

I'll try the standard game and see if it shows up.



> Do the freezes happen when an AI is playing, or do they seem to happen
> when you are playing?

I can get it to freeze after I quit and am simply clicking around the map before final game shutdown.




> > When the machine locks, it totally freezes and requires a hardware reset.

> On a system with protected memory and whatnot, this is fairly hard to
> imagine, unless there are other factors involved such as a flaky video
> card or some sort of faulty in-kernel video support. Furthermore, this
> does not seem to happen on my development system.

All other operations seem ok.  No system locks other than Xconq.




> If you are using Linux when this happens, can you give some details
> about your kernel: which version (particularly, is it a 2.4 or 2.6),

Debian Stable/Woody, nothing added, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4, tcl/tk 8.3.



> does it have NPTL support, does it have DRM support?

neither 'nptl' nor 'drm' shows up with apt-cache search nor with man -k



 And some other
> details: what version of Tcl and is it compiled for multithreading

Unknown about multithreading.  Doesn't show up in apt-cache search


, and
> what version of XFree86

4.01


> and which of its extension modules are loaded?

Quite a list is shown.  Want the whole list?  Anything in particular to look for?