From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:27:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:27:21 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:60975 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:27:10 -0400 To: Wilfried Weissmann Cc: Subject: Re: [OOPS] repeatable 2.4.8-ac7, 2.4.7-ac6 [I] just run xdos In-Reply-To: <20010819214322.D1315@squish.home.loc> <20010820211410.B218@squish.home.loc> <3B828898.BD98D4C4@gmx.at> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 21 Aug 2001 10:20:03 -0600 In-Reply-To: <3B828898.BD98D4C4@gmx.at> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Wilfried Weissmann writes: > > I have the same problem on a K7-800. My kernel is 2.4.7-ac3 (with K7 > optimization!). Everything else seems to work fine, but dosemu locks up > the computer when running certain games. > Sometimes I can play for quite some time (1/2 hour or more) without > problems. Eventually it will freeze. It feels like it is triggered by > mouse activity. Hmm. There are some similiar conditions. And it may be the same bug. Is your dosemu not suid root? And running in X when you are playing those games? You don't have any ports lines in your dosemu.conf? It is very important to rule out dosemu doing direct hardware access, before investigating something else like the kernel. Eric