Subject: Re: FreeBSD X server
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/1997 15:07:25
Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> In article <E0xiez6-00004D-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes:
> 
> >It gets as far as reading in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, and then
> >
> >        144 238 144             light green
> >        144 238 144             LightGreen
> >       "
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   read 991/0x3df
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  break(0x23b000)
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   break 0
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  read(0x4,0x21d000,0x2000)
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre GIO   fd 4 read 0 bytes
> >       "" 
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   read 0
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  close(0x4)
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   close 0
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre PSIG  SIGBUS SIG_DFL
> >  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre NAMI  "XSuSE_NVidia_Fre.core"
> 
> Not so good plan then :-) Try digging in the source to find what happens 
> after reading rgb.txt or ktrace the server in a FreeBSD machine and compare
> the results. Or finally, find out what instruction caused the core...
> 
> christos
> 

The sad thing is, it's a binary only distribution :(

Cheers,

 Patrick