Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:47:51 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: i915 X lockup |
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:31:28 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28.2.2009 01:20, Eric Anholt wrote: > > KMS support is not a feature of the server but of your 2D driver. You > > want 2.6.2, or things will be bad. > > I have 2.5.0. After turning KMS off, problem seems to be solved. > > Anyway, I would appreciate a version of the intel driver being in the > Kconfig text, otherwise it looks like: don't use this on machines with > installation from stone age. If one has latest stable release of a > distro, he doesn't even think he doesn't have "new enough userspace". > > For reference, the text is: > Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, > and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old > userspaces with this enabled will cause pain.
Hang on.
The kernel deadlocked on struct_mutex, did it not? That's a kernel bug regardless of what userspace you're running.
Do we know why this happened?
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