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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Fade screen saver page faults
From:       Jim Bryant <jbryant () news ! iadfw ! net>
Date:       1995-03-31 11:05:35
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In reply:
> From: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
> Subject: Fade screen saver page faults
> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:08:37 -0600 (CST)
> 
> I was trying to enable to "fade" screen saver, but anytime that
> the screen saver tries to start, I get a panic with the message
> "page fault while in kernel mode".  All of the other screen savers
> work just fine.  Running a modstat shows that the fade saver
> is loading at the same address as all of the other savers.
> Examining the crash dump shows that it faults right at the line in
> in syscons.c where it attempts to call the screen saver (making it
> look like the saver never loaded, but modstat says it is fine).
> 
> I tried sup-ing the entire source tree this morning and doing a full 
> kernel built, and rebuilding everything in /usr/src/lkm, along with new 
> modstat/modload/modunload command with no better luck.  Can anyone 
> else get this screen saver to work, or am I the only unlucky one?  
> And if it is just happening to me, anyone have any ideas why?

I gave up on the fade saver when it was leaving my display in a very 
weird state back in 2.0R...

Jim
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