From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 10:57:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 10:57:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F9137B6F4; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by mail.monkeys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBDIvTw39361; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:57:29 -0800 (PST) To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while installing In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:40:52 -0800. <200012131240.eBDCeq308534@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:57:29 -0800 Message-ID: <39359.976733849@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200012131240.eBDCeq308534@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, you wrote: >> >> 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? > >That's hard to say. We expect the card's BIOS to work, and the >exceedingly vast majority of them do. You just answered the question. It's the card's fault. >> Is there some standard that says that VIDEO BIOSes aren't supposed to >> execute instructions that would be considered illegal in v86 mode? > >You're supposed to be able to call the BIOS in v86 mode, yes. A lot of >DOS extenders (used for DOS-based games) do this. Sounds to me like you have just confirmed your answer above... It really is the card's fault. (Grumble, grumble... last time I buy a video card whose brand I never heard of before!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message