From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 17 06:42:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA05603 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 06:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pompano.pcola.gulf.net (root@pompano.pcola.gulf.net [198.69.72.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA05596 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 06:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pompano.pcola.gulf.net (spatula@localhost.gulf.net [127.0.0.1]) by pompano.pcola.gulf.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA05601; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:39:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:39:24 -0600 (CST) From: Prisoner X-Sender: spatula@pompano.pcola.gulf.net To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2494: page faults In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > The fault VA looks suspicious, it's not just a NULL pointer. It's > 0x7200c4c - 0x52c = 0x7200720. Looks like trashed memory -- a pointer > has been trashed by repeatedly dumping the short 0x720 over it. > Incidentally, 0x720 is a space in the video frame buffer, with the > default attribute 0x7 (white gray on black). Is it possible that this could be caused by a video card problem? Would there be any merit in my trying a different video card? Nick -- "Your views are not important" - Nyder, from Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks Nick Johnson, not to be trifled with. http://www.gulf.net/~spatula/