Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: b97001@lums.edu.pk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XWin Config Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960622140905.343A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606190340.IAA27062@ravi.lums.edu.pk>
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 b97001@lums.edu.pk wrote: > Here's all the detail that I think would help you in figuring out the problem. > As i said, it's a 486 DX@/66 with 8 MB RAM. The monitor that i have is DATAS > interlace, with the following horizontal & vertical scan frequencies: [omitted] > The video card i am using is Trident VGA (1 MB). > > The way i install the FreeBSD is that I have a CD of 2.0.5. However, since my > CD Drive is not scuzzy, what i do is that i copy the installation on the DOS > drive and then do the installation from there. I use xf86config program to make > the file. After making the config file, i run the 'X' program. First a blank > screen appears with twinkling stars, then a screen with background crosses > appears, with an X as a mouse pointr. Immediately afterwards, the system either > hangs, in which case i have to do Ctrl+Alt+BckSpace, or it starts to sync > discs. The message that appears is > Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > Fault code: supervisor write, page not present > Then the system reboots. It panics? That is not good. I usually associate trap 12's with out of memory. Which X server are you using? You should be on either VGA16 or SVGA. You should use 'startx' to start the X server. > Well, that's all that i could figure out to be relevant. If there are any more > questions, please address them to b97001@lums.edu.pk. As you might have > guessed, i'm new to Unix OS. If there's a way in which i can redirect these > errors in some file, then i could send you the whole file. The X server's errors you can redirect as normal: startx > errors the > is "redirection" and takes the output and puts in the file given after the >. Just like DOS. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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