Re: XFree86 vs. 2.5.54 - reboot

Bob_Trac (rct@gherkin.frus.com)
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:51:40 -0600 (CST)

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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