you might want to try searching dejanews for something like this.
dejanews recently divided their service into "products" and "usenet"
sections, so we kind of have the old dejanews back now, it's bookmark
worthy again. (i don't work there anymore so this is an honest plug)
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, "T. Weston Sewell" wrote:
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:09:15 -0600 (CST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "T. Weston Sewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "T. Weston Sewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Quake sig 11
>
> I can't get quakeII to use my voodoo 3. Every time I try to use the glx
> driver, I get a sig 11. I ran the glide test program and it works great
> -
> I get a pretty little spinning 3DFX logo - fullscreen in X. So I decided
> to run strace on quake and I get something weird:
>
>
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> writev(9, [{"\x6c\x00\x0b\x00\x00\x00\x12\x00"..., 12},
> {"MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1", 18}, {"\x00\x00", 2},
> {"\x3b\xff\x4d\x11\x37\xf4\x84\x8b"..., 16}], 4) = 48
> fcntl(9, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> read(9, 0xbffff08c, 8) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x0b\x00\x00\x00\x24\x00"..., 8) = 8
> read(9, "\x4f\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03"..., 144) = 144
> write(9, "\x37\x00\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03"..., 64) = 64
> read(9, 0xbffff0a0, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> write(9, "\x84\x00\x01\x00", 4) = 4
> read(9, 0xbffff0c0, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> writev(9, [{"\x62\x00\x05\x00\x09\x00\x00\x03"..., 8}, {"XKEYBOARD", 9},
> {"\x00\x00\x00", 3}], 3) = 20
> read(9, 0xbfffef70, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> write(9, "\x88\x00\x02\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00"..., 8) = 8
> read(9, 0xbfffeff4, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x01\x06\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> write(9, "\x10\x00\x04\x00\x07\x00\x00\x00"..., 16) = 16
> read(9, 0xbfffefa4, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [9])
> read(9, "\x01\x00\x07\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"..., 32) = 32
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> write(1, "Received signal 11, exiting...\n"..., 31Received signal 11,
> exiting...
> ) = 31
> _exit(0) = ?
>
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>
> Anyone know how can I figure out what/why/where that last write is - I'm
> thinking maybe that will help me figure out what is causing the problem.
>
> weston
>
> --
> T. Weston Sewell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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