From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 14:12:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09380 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.107]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09371 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00387; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:12:25 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: b97001@lums.edu.pk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XWin Config In-Reply-To: <199606190340.IAA27062@ravi.lums.edu.pk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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