From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 20:54:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18548 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18543 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24465; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:53:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: mike grommet cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with EPoX VIA motherboard? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, mike grommet wrote: > I recently upgraded to a new motherboard / cpu / memory / video card > and now that I am trying to run freebsd, I am getting rather random page > faults out of the blue. When reporting kernel panics, it's *very* important to include all output from the panic. The page fault panic is very generic; we need the addressing information to lock down what function the panic is originating from. > EPOX mainboard, socket 7 with AGP (100 Mhz bus) > 64 Megs of SDRAM, a single DIMM (100 Mhz) > AMD k6-2 / 300 (100 Mhz Bus) > Ultra DMA IDE drive, 6.4 gigs... > A Diamond Viper 330 AGP. (note, not doing any graphics here. page faults > are occuring in text mode) > > Basically this started up with FreeBSD 2.2.6... everything seemed fine at > first, everything went as planned. I decided to cvsup to the 2.2.7 release, > I downloaded the cvsup binary from the ports and insatlled it. > I started the cvsup and it crapped out. > > I tried several other things, and it crapped out randomly there too... Without knowing the details I can't comment on what's going on. If you have the time I'd get your RAM and processor cache checked out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message