From: florin@iucha.net (Florin Iucha)
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.37 won't run X?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:59:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020921185939.GA1771@iucha.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <597384533.1032600316@[10.10.2.3]>
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:25:18AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> > X won't start on 2.5.37, but works with 2.5.36
> >> > The screen goes black as usual, but then nothing else happens.
> >> > ssh'ing in from another machine shows XFree86 using 50% cpu,
> >> > i.e. one of the two cpu's in this machine.
> >>
> >> Looks like Linus fixed this already in his BK tree ... want
> >> to grab that and see if it fixes your problem?
> >
> > What changeset do you think fixed this?
>
> Well, this bit looked hopeful:
>
> 23 hours torvalds 1.575 Fix vm86 system call interface to entry.S.
> This has been broken since the thread_info support went in (early July),
> and can cause lockups at X startup etc.
X is not locked up, as it eats all the CPU. And 2.5.36 works just fine.
florin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-21 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-21 10:10 2.5.37 won't run X? Helge Hafting
2002-09-21 13:41 ` Florin Iucha
2002-09-21 14:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-21 16:17 ` Florin Iucha
2002-09-21 16:25 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-21 18:59 ` Florin Iucha [this message]
2002-09-21 20:23 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-21 20:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-22 4:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-22 6:27 ` Florin Iucha
2002-09-23 4:56 ` Florin Iucha
2002-09-23 4:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-22 12:18 ` Andries Brouwer
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