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SubjectRe: 2.6.10 dies when X uses PCI radeon 9200 SE, binary search result
> >>
>
> That's certainly correct.
>
> > Such issues
> > could crash (all) user apps, but shouldn't prevent the machine from
> > responding to sysrq sequences.
>
> You emphasized the differences of the effects. But there is one reason in
> all cases which I know: int10 crashes X or even the whole kernel.
>
> I could debug the problem to the following point:
>
>
> I could see, that X crashes in glibc 2.3.4 with kernel 2.4.x (not with
> kernel 2.6.x, x <= 10, x > 10 not tested) during the first malloc syscall
> after int10 to execute the function
> xf86MsgVerb(X_INFO,3,"my comment\n");
>
> The crashes depend on different versions of used software:
>
> glibc 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 with kernel 2.4.x
> glibc 2.3.2 with kernel > 2.6.9rc2
>


Well if you can track down which patch in -rc2 causes it then we can
annoy the person who created it, if you build some kernels from the bk
snapshots it might help as -rc2 is quite large vs -rc1..

Dave.
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