Hi,
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:07:40AM -0700, xorg-requ...@lists.x.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:08:57 +0200
> From: Abhishek Gupta <abhishek.ism...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to run xserver on l4linux which is paravirtualised liux
> running on top of l4
>
> using vesa frame buffer (l4 is running on kvm) and virtual machine
> hangs with a black screen.
>
>
> When I tried to debug it using gdb, it displays
> 0xb6ee9b28 in SetResetBIOSVars (pInt=0x820f5a0, set=<value optimized out>)
> at ../../../../hw/xfree86/int10/helper_exec.c:686
>
> this code is from the xserver 1.7.7
>
> static void
> SetResetBIOSVars(xf86Int10InfoPtr pInt, Bool set)
> {
> int pagesize = getpagesize();
> unsigned char* base = xf86MapVidMem(pInt->scrnIndex,
> VIDMEM_MMIO, 0, pagesize);
> int i;
>
> if (set) {
> for (i = BIOS_SCRATCH_OFF; i < BIOS_SCRATCH_END; i++)
> MEM_WW(pInt, i, *(base + i));
> } else {
> for (i = BIOS_SCRATCH_OFF; i < BIOS_SCRATCH_END; i++)
> /*line 685*/
> *(base + i) = MEM_RW(pInt, i); /*line 686*/ //This line of code
> is not working
>
> }
>
> xf86UnMapVidMem(pInt->scrnIndex,base,pagesize);
> }
> I changed the DEFAULT_INT10 from x86emu to vm86 but then also xserver
> stops at exactly same Macro.
>
> Is there any driver which I can use that doesn't uses int10 to set the
> video mode?
I'm not qualified to indicate this, sorry.
> Also what could be the possible reasons that xserver is showing
> segmentation fault while running MEM_RW macro??
You should have listed a disas around EIP register
(i.e. info reg, disas $eip-0x40 $eip+0x40 or some such).
That way one would be able to gather more details of what's
failing (possibly base address NULL, ...).
HTH,
Andreas Mohr
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