Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2: devmem_is_allowed | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:40:29 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 00:37, Martin Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > after switching from working 2.6.9-rc2 to -mm2, X refused to start on my > testbox. It turned out this was because it failed (EPERM) reading from > /dev/mem beyond the 1MB limit.
can you get me a strace of the failing X server? The code as is is as designed; X has no business messing with kernel ram over 1Mb, there is nothing there for it to (ab)use. (There is PCI memory much higher up but that is allowed again) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |