From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 5:32: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E5737B416 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 05:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (unknown [209.105.45.24]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1900F4AC for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:31:31 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2C0A5386E; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:31:03 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:31:03 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: "Jason A. Corley" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine reboots every time I try to configure XFree86 Message-ID: <20011223073102.A227@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Jason A. Corley" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C24CD52.328CA398@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C24CD52.328CA398@nc.rr.com>; from jcorley1@nc.rr.com on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:13:38PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message