Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:52:26 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot |
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"Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote: > > > AMD K6-III 450 running a 2.4.19 kernel with vesafb, XFree86 4.1.0, and > > > a USB mouse works fine. Same setup with a 2.5.54 kernel does a cold > > > reboot when I type "startx". > > > > I saw exactly the same. In my case it appears to be due to miscompilation > > of a particular sysenter patch which went into 2.5.53. If you're using > > gcc-2.91.66 (aka `kgcc') then try 2.95.x instead. > > I'm running gcc-2.95.3 here. Is that a "sufficiently correct" version > to avoid the miscompilation problem? >
Yup. It must be something else then. Perhaps you should try disabling various DRM/AGP type things in config, see if that helps. If not, it would help if you could identify the kernel version at which the failure started to occur. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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