From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Bob_Tracy(0000)" <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:20:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1C880A.87A93CFA@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030108140525.DF0434EE7@gherkin.frus.com
"Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote:
>
> This probably applies to immediately prior kernels in the 2.5 series
> as well. 2.5.54 seemed like a good time to jump in and test the waters,
> so to speak...
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 20:11 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 [this message]
2003-01-08 21:35 ` Bob_Tracy(0000)
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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