Subject: Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot
In-Reply-To: <3E1C9D9A.FD5CA1F6@digeo.com> "from Andrew Morton at Jan 8, 2003
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:51:40 -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".
> 
> Yup.  It must be something else then.  Perhaps you should try disabling
> various DRM/AGP type things in config, see if that helps.

I wrote:
> 2.5.55 appears to work fine with CONFIG_AGP and CONFIG_DRM undefined.
> I'll retry with CONFIG_AGP_MODULE next...

and in a followup, I wrote:
> CONFIG_AGP_MODULE enabled works fine with CONFIG_AGP_VIA_MODULE.  I'll try
> turning everything back on (AGP 3.0 compliance, DRM) and see what happens.

Final (?) report: with 2.5.56 and all the AGP/DRM modules configured
and built (that I normally configure and build), no problems that I can
tell.  Whatever it was, it probably got fixed in 2.5.55.

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