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On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 23:20 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 
> If you want heap protection, change VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32
> in include/asm-powerpc/page.h to be like VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS.
> I'd love to hear if anybody can get X to start with this change.
> For me (Xorg w/ ATI) a module load fails.

Which versions of the X server and driver, and which module fails to
load exactly how? As of X.Org 6.9, the X server no longer uses a custom
module loader but just dlopen and friends.


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