Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756100Ab0FGDg4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:36:56 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58132 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755309Ab0FGDgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:36:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:31:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alessandro Suardi cc: Torsten Kaiser , Tejun Heo , Alex Deucher , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.35-rc2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4C0BC35C.8070003@kernel.org> <4C0BC45A.6080104@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 30 On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Torsten Kaiser > > > [ ? 82.510007] RAX: 0720072007200720 Ok, so that 0720072007200720 pattern is the VGA text-mode pattern for a sequence of spaces (07 is the default white-on-black attribute). So it does seem to be some odd graphics/VGA-related thing that does something odd, and apparently overwrites random memory with bogus stuff.. > With -rc2 on F13, x86_64, Dell E6400 I had X not showing > on "startx" at the first attempt (totally blank screen), with > the oops pasted below found after Alt-Fn'ing into another > console tty and logging in. > > RBX: 0e200e200e200e20 Looks like the same thing - again spaces (but 0e is I think bright white on black or something). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/