Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:11:22 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while installing Message-ID: <38164.976709482@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:07:08 -0800. <200012131207.eBDC78308428@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <200012131207.eBDC78308428@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, you wrote: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ... >> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 >> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 >> atkbd: the current kbd controller command byte 0067 >> atkbd: keyboard ID 0x41ab (2) >> kbdc: RESET_KBD return code:00fa >> kbdc: RESET_KBD status:00aa >> >> >> Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction fault while in vm86 mode >> instruction pointer = 0xcc00:0x30d3 > >Ok; that doesn't really help a lot, unfortunately. However, I still >think you're probably in the VESA BIOS. You might want to try a >different (brand/type) of video card and see if that doesn't improve >things. > >> So does that help any? What's going on here? > >What's going on is that we've called the BIOS in v86 mode, and it's done >something stupid. It's probably not expecting to be called like this at >all. So who is really at fault here? The card, or FreeBSD? Is there some standard that says that VIDEO BIOSes aren't supposed to execute instructions that would be considered illegal in v86 mode? And anyway, how the heck did we get down into the Video Card BIOS before we have even finished doing keyboard initialization? Or have we finished that? (I can't quite tell.) >> Should I try swapping the video card out? > >Definitely. OK. Will do. First thing in the morning. But I've had enough fun for one day now, so I'm turning in for the nite. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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