Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: kernel update (relative to 2.4.10)

David Mosberger
2001-10-02T03:37:05Z

>>>>> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:14:06 -0400, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> said:

Bill> Chris Ahna (christopher.j.ahna@intel.com) said:
>> Well, I do now :-) On ia64 we want to map even AGP memory as
>> writecombined. The appended patch should fix the rendering
>> problems Bill reported earlier.

Bill> Yup, works great. Running ia32 glxinfo appears to crash the X
Bill> server, though...

Speaking of the X server: I recently tried the stuff in the "rawhide"
directory (XFree 4.1.0). The X server *still* easily crashes the
machine when switching back between the X server and the virtual
consoles. This is very painful. I hope someone can find some time to
look into this. (By "crash" I mean "instant reboot".)

--david