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From: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
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Cc: Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>,
	Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: xdm oopses
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:40:22AM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> > That's xdm reading heaps of data from /dev/mem blindly (touching regions
> > it better shouldn't read from) for prng purposes. We had a fix in
> > Debian's xdm, hope the problem didn't creep back in. What X are you
> > running?
> 
> This is from Debian - 4.1.0-16.
The changes went into 4.2.1-4 at 18 Nov 2002.
 -- Guido