From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 03:05:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA13939 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:05:44 -0800 Received: from news.iadfw.net (jbryant@news.iadfw.net [204.178.72.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA13931 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:05:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (jbryant@localhost) by news.iadfw.net (8.6.5/8.6.6) id FAA21055; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 05:05:36 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199503311105.FAA21055@news.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: Fade screen saver page faults To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 05:05:35 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503310308.VAA00167@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 30, 95 09:08:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1482 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > From: Mike Pritchard > 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 -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America