Xfree problem on SMP kernel

Levente Farkas !spam-lfarkas@mindmaker.kfkipark.hu
Thu Sep 24 04:32:00 GMT 1998


strange, but it's worth to know, that egcs-1.1b compile a not 100%
correct code for kernel! after I downgrade to gcc-2.7.2.3-11 everything
work prpperly.

Holger Veit wrote:
> 
> >
> > hi,
> > I'm just compile a new 2.0.35 kernel for our ASUS P2L97-DS Dual PII card.
> > everything seems to work well except Xfree. it's immediately core dump,
> > or segmentation fault or simple "can't connect to x server..".
> > we use an S3V2 Trio64 card.
> > if I switch back to the single processor kernel X is working properly,
> > even if I use the suggested SMP-glibc.
> > the problem seems X can't find any appropriate hsync and delete all
> > resolution from vaild list.
> > what can be the solution ?
> > if I recompile all XFree may help ?
> > or the kernel with some other config ?
> > thanks in advance.
> 
> Did you use gcc-2.8.x? This produces, for the single-CPU kernels, broken
> kernel code which then results in a crash of the server. The problem is
> not in XFree86. See FAQ for more details.

thanks.

 -- Levente

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