From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 14 3:36:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 03:36:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3014737B400; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:36:39 -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 eBEBacw43364; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:36:38 -0800 (PST) To: Mike Smith Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:22:53 -0800. <200012141122.eBEBMr901509@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:36:38 -0800 Message-ID: <43362.976793798@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200012141122.eBEBMr901509@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, you wrote: >> >> >Also, the VESA code isn't in GENERIC, says he just looking. >> > >> >I'm sorry; I don't have any other great ideas. Try a new video card. 8) >> >> OK. I went today and bought a new ATI Xpert 98 video card. >> >> I installed it into the system in question. >> >> I tried to install FreeBSD again. >> >> Still no-go. I am getting EXACTLY the same error as before at EXACTLY >> the same point in the process. > >Ok, so it's not the VESA BIOS. 8) I'm a little puzzled as to what the >SCSI controller BIOS is doing being called at this point in time (the only >other candidate). > >> Based on the evidence, I am inclined to say that there is a definite bug >> in the FreeBSD 4.1.1 generic kernel. I mean hay! FreeBSD 3.3 boots up >> fine on the exact same hardware. > >No, the bug is in the BIOS code. We're just tripping over it. I don't think so. I filed a detailed PR on this whole problem, and someone responded to that already saying that he's pretty sure that the problem is fixed (again) in FreeBSD 4.2. The AHA-1542CP card is perfectly OK... It's just that FreeBSD 4.1 was expecting a little to much from it. I hope and believe that is rectified in 4.2. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message