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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:39:49 -0600
From:      Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic changing screen mode with vidcontrol
Message-ID:  <3C035F65.9080903@yahoo.com>
References:  <20011126173543.A7551@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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VESA is broked.  Remove VESA from your config.  Been this way for months.

It also will panic once in a VESA mode, such as my favorite and yours, 132x60, when switching from vty to vty.

Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Having installed a new kernel and userland from sources about a day
> old, my vidcontrol command now causes a panic:
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode
> fault virtual address   = 0xc359b
> fault code              = user read, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0xc000:0x359b
> stack pointer           = 0x0:0xf82
> frame pointer           = 0x0:0xfdc
> code segment            = base 0x20000, limit 0x5004f, type 0x0
>                         = DPL 0, pres 0, def32 0, gran 0
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, vm86, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 57775 (vidcontrol)
> 
> The backtrace shows nothing useful - gdb doesn't seem to handle
> tracing through vm86 :-(.
> 
> The command I used was "vidcontrol 132x60" after confirming that
> this was listed in "vidcontrol -i mode".  I have previously been
> using VESA_132x60, but that also panics now.
> 
> Any suggestions where to look?
> 
> Peter
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jim
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