Subject: Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot
In-Reply-To: <3E1C880A.87A93CFA@digeo.com> "from Andrew Morton at Jan 8, 2003
 12:20:26 pm"
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:35:17 -0600 (CST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From: rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob_Tracy(0000))
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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?

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