Re: Kernel 2.4.5-pre3

[Michel D. <mic...@ii...>]

Glenn Hisdal wrote:

> Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Glenn Hisdal wrote:
> 
> >> Interesting...
> >> Guess what I'll be trying out tonight ;-)
> 
> > I don't wish to know...
> 
> :-))
> 
> > But X is much better, still had a couple of crashes with a message about
> > signal 4.
> 
> > After X crashes and goes back to a console, the next command I attempt too
> > run fails and says 'illegal instruction' and core dumps, after that all is
> > OK.  Not sure if its the illegal instruction from the X crash being
> > reported again or something else.
> 
> hmmm...
> X doesn't appear to behave any different here.
> The system still locks up completely when switching back to console.

I'm afraid there are at least two different problems. One is the PCI related
one which you are suffering from. Ken can hardly have that as he is using a
CV64/3D (right?). There seems to be another one that Andreas Wüst reported, it
looks like the same as Ken's to me as both reported an error message about
floating point in kernel.


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