From: rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob_Tracy(0000))
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:35:17 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108213517.7F32F4EE7@gherkin.frus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1C880A.87A93CFA@digeo.com> "from Andrew Morton at Jan 8, 2003 12:20:26 pm"
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote:
> > AMD K6-III 450 running a 2.4.19 kernel with vesafb, XFree86 4.1.0, and
> > a USB mouse works fine. Same setup with a 2.5.54 kernel does a cold
> > reboot when I type "startx".
>
> I saw exactly the same. In my case it appears to be due to miscompilation
> of a particular sysenter patch which went into 2.5.53. If you're using
> gcc-2.91.66 (aka `kgcc') then try 2.95.x instead.
I'm running gcc-2.95.3 here. Is that a "sufficiently correct" version
to avoid the miscompilation problem?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 14:05 XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot Bob_Tracy(0000)
2003-01-08 14:24 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-01-08 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-08 21:35 ` Bob_Tracy(0000) [this message]
2003-01-08 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-09 5:17 ` Bob_Tracy(0000)
2003-01-10 14:06 ` Bob_Tracy(0000)
2003-01-10 15:26 ` Bob_Tracy(0000)
2003-01-10 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-11 14:51 ` Bob_Tracy(0000)
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