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From: Christopher Shumway <cshumway@cdrom.com>
To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
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Subject: Re: Neomagic audio driver
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On Sat, 20 May 2000, Donn Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Christopher Shumway wrote:
> 
> > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

[Crash snipped]
> 
> How do you capture a dump of this sort of thing (e.g. page fault) to a
> file?

It appears in the dmesg buffer as long as you warm-boot the machine after
the crash.  It appears that it stays in memory and FreeBSD picks it up
again on the next reboot, because the BIOS doesn't flush the contents of
memory on a warm boot.



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