From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:25:35 -0400 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:30738 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:25:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA32C51.B4D9B14@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:24:17 +0200 From: SPATZ1@t-online.de (Frank Schneider) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-test i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Ingber CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Random Sig'11 in XF864 with kernel > 2.2.x In-Reply-To: <1000530589.2267.11.camel@DESK-2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeffrey Ingber schrieb: > > Hello kernel developers: > > I'm experiencing random Signal 11's on kernels in the 2.4 series with > XFree86 4 and SMP configurations. Here a some threads to the XFree86 > mailing lists which suggest that the Signal 11's are kernel related. > Downgrading to a 2.2 series kernel solves these problems: > > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-September/011053.html > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-September/011229.html > > Here's a snippet from my posting to the list: > > ---- > > Dell PowerEdge 6300 (Quad Xeon 500) with ATI Rage 128 > > IBM Netfinity 5600 (Dual PIII 667) with Matrox MMS Quad Monitor > > Tyan Tunderbolt S1873UANG-R (Dual PIII 600) with Matrox Marvel G400 > > I'll bet it goes away if you don't use a 2.4 SMP kernel. > That is, use a 2.4 UP kernel or a 2.2 UP/SMP kernel. > --- > > And this turned out to be the case. Is there anything that I could do > help fix this? Is there anyone else on this list that has had similar > problems and has overcome this? > Hello.. I can only admit that i also know this problem. I run a RH7.1 on a dual-PIII/850 with a Matrox G400/16MB, and i also had several crashes of X, mostly when Netscape runs, but some without it. What i did: I changed the default colourdepth from 24 to 16 and i got the "original" mga.o-modules from www.matrox.com. But this did not help, i suffered a crash some days ago again, but this time i had a logentry, it said: --------- Sep 12 13:14:27 falcon kernel: [drm] Process 850 dead (ctx 1, d_s = 0x00) --------- I run XFree 4.0.3 and have enabled the Matrox-Options in the Kernel under "Character devices - Support for Matrox g200/g400", but this did not help either. Another problem i got by using the modules from "matrox.com", i cannot switch between consoles and X anymore, if i switch back to X several times (one time usually is ok), the whole machine crashes, i have to reboot via SysRq and even that does not work everytime. But this is related to the "mga.o"-module from matrox, i hadnt this effect with the mga.o from XFree86. Solong.. Frank. -- Frank Schneider, . Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ... -.-