To review for anxious readers, three different solutions have been
posted on linux-kernel for this problem:
#1 by Benjamin LaHaise - see linux-kernel-digest #635
#2 by Stephen Tweedie - see linux-kernel-digest #636
#3 by Stephen Tweedie - see linux-kernel-digest #638
Solution #2 seems to be incorporated into v2.1.14 now.
I'll try #3 now and report back after wringing it out a while.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html