Re: Regression: starting X locks box with git master

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Apr 24 2008 - 16:53:21 EST


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM, James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 3dc5063786b273f1aee545844f6bd4e9651ebffe was current when I compiled.
>
> With that kernel, my laptop locks up as soon as I startx.
>
> The Xorg.0.log showed that the radeon driver got as far as starting
> the i2c calls to the M7 video card.
>
> After that the box would reply to ICMP pings and SysRq-B, but was
> otherwise non-responsive. Even SysRq-[KSU] seemed to do nothing.
>
> v2.6.25 works fine.
>
> There are 3562 commits (including merges) between those two, and
> it takes an hour or more for each kernel compile. Bisecting will
> be quite painful. And I only have the one box to work on. But I
> will see what I can do.
>
> Posting before bisecting in case it helps anyone else....

Do you have CONFIG_X86_PAT in your .config?

YH
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