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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:31:03 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        "Jason A. Corley" <jcorley1@nc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Machine reboots every time I try to configure XFree86
Message-ID:  <20011223073102.A227@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C24CD52.328CA398@nc.rr.com>; from jcorley1@nc.rr.com on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:13:38PM -0500
References:  <3C24CD52.328CA398@nc.rr.com>

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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:13:38PM -0500, Jason A. Corley wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE (cvsuped from source this morning).
> Every time I try to run XFree86 -configure my machine reboots.  I get
> the same behavior if I write a config file and place it in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config.  Pretty much any time I try to do anything with
> X the machine reboots.  I have an Athlon 1.2 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM and
> my video card is an AGP Matrox G450 with 32 MB of RAM.  The machine is a
> Compaq.  I've loaded the agp module at boot time by adding
> agp_enable="YES" to my /boot/loader.conf and manually created the
> agpgart device using sh MAKEDEV agpgart.  I see no message to my screen
> after I try to run startx, XFree86 -configure, etc., but when the
> machine reboots I do see this in dmesg:
> 
> kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled
> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc02a351b
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xec887cf0
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xec887d10
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags        = resume, IOPL = 3
> current process         = 152 (XFree86)
> interrupt mask          = none
> trap number             = 9
> panic: general protection fault
> syncing disks... 5 1
> done
> Uptime: 2m36s
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> --> Press a key on the console to reboot <--
> Rebooting...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Jason

Is there any way you can try different ram or video card in the 
system?  Smells suspiciously like flakey hardware to me.

Josh


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