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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: X386 gives a bus error in ET4000EnterLeave() Message-ID: <1992Oct5.163823.27013@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <48243@shamash.cdc.com> <veit.718277451@du9ds3> <48284@shamash.cdc.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 16:38:23 GMT Lines: 31 In article <48284@shamash.cdc.com> pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes: >|> >|> This problem at inb/outb occurs when the xserver does not run in the >|> protection ring 0. The kernel patches to pccons accomplish that in the >|> CONSOLE_X_MODE_ON/OFF ioctl's. If they are not present, you get this >|> fault. Also the xserver must be setuid root. >|> BTW, a simple stupid question: you may have done the XSERVER patches, but >|> did you rebuild the kernel with the XSERVER option in your config file, >|> and did you do a make depend? > >Yes and yes (XSERVER is in config file and I did a make depend and make). > >I'm going to try a clean pccons.c and locore.s There might be problems in >the installed patches. The patch kit contains all of the most recent patches for X, as well as enough stability patches/memory management patches that you probably want it for X. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu terry_lambert@novell.com --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------