Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 05:05:35 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@news.iadfw.net> To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fade screen saver page faults Message-ID: <199503311105.FAA21055@news.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <199503310308.VAA00167@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 30, 95 09:08:37 pm
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> From: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
> Subject: Fade screen saver page faults
> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:08:37 -0600 (CST)
>
> I was trying to enable to "fade" screen saver, but anytime that
> the screen saver tries to start, I get a panic with the message
> "page fault while in kernel mode". All of the other screen savers
> work just fine. Running a modstat shows that the fade saver
> is loading at the same address as all of the other savers.
> Examining the crash dump shows that it faults right at the line in
> in syscons.c where it attempts to call the screen saver (making it
> look like the saver never loaded, but modstat says it is fine).
>
> I tried sup-ing the entire source tree this morning and doing a full
> kernel built, and rebuilding everything in /usr/src/lkm, along with new
> modstat/modload/modunload command with no better luck. Can anyone
> else get this screen saver to work, or am I the only unlucky one?
> And if it is just happening to me, anyone have any ideas why?
I gave up on the fade saver when it was leaving my display in a very
weird state back in 2.0R...
Jim
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