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 13:52:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1C9D9A.FD5CA1F6@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030108213517.7F32F4EE7@gherkin.frus.com
"Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Yup. It must be something else then. Perhaps you should try disabling
various DRM/AGP type things in config, see if that helps. If not, it would
help if you could identify the kernel version at which the failure started
to occur.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 21:43 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)
2003-01-08 21:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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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