From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:41:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:41:25 -0400 Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com ([24.29.99.226]:1203 "EHLO nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:41:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3D777BC0.9030004@linux.org> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:44:00 -0400 From: John Weber Organization: Linux Online User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux on Toshiba Libretto 70CT References: <3D7563B2.2090707@linux.org> <1031138132.2796.24.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 02:36, John Weber wrote: > >>The kernel locks up completely whenever I launch any particularly large >>application under X (xterm is fine, netscape locks up the box). >>I've confirmed that this isn't just X locking up, as the machine is >>completely frozen (doesn't respond to pings, doesn't respond to three >>finger salute, etc). > > > Can you duplicate this with the vesa and/or vga16 drivers ? > The kernel locks up regardless of what drivers I use (and I have tried the vga16 drivers already). Disabling the accelerated functions also "fixes" the machine, for some definitions of "fix" :). My question is really why this problem would lock up the kernel... I can't really tell whether the problem is in the implementation of the XFree86 functions or the kernel functions it is calling, but the fact that the entire kernel locks up suggests that both are to blame. Can you suggest where I should start reading code (if not the file atleast the directory :). (o- j o h n e w e b e r //\ aspiring computer scientist v_/_ http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/acm/weber/