On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:52, Muddy Banks wrote: > > There, I did "strace XF86Setup" as root and I got this on the last four > > lines: > > > > read(4, "c)\n\nName S3 86C280 (generic)\nSEE"...,4096) = 4096 > > brk(0x80a6000) = 0x80a6000 > > --- SIGSEV (Segmantation fault) --- > > +++ killed by SIGSEV +++ > > > > Does that make any sense? > > > the error that could be present here has to do with the call to brk and > setting the end of the segment to an address where another program is > already at. this causes a segmentation fault because the part of memry > (segment) that you are trying to access is already out of the bounds of > the running process.
You might try to let the XFree86 server automagically generate a working configuration file for you: XFree86 -configure. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
