On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:28, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > > > > > > > That only happens in 2.6.3-(rc?)-ben1. 2.6.2 works well from vt`s > > > > and X. I am running fbgetty, maybe that causes the backtrace? As > > > > well i have CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y. > > > > > > Well, how often does it happen ? Is it 100% reproduceable ? > > > > It`s not 100% reproduceable. It only happens when I am working on > > vt's. I. e. fireing up vim causes an Oops:> > >> .../... > > It all look weird, like kernel memory corruption. Do you have > CONFIG_PREEMPT ? If yes, what's up if you disable it ? I have set # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set and under heavily switching from X to console and using some console progs like mplayer, mutt and vim it seems to be ok now ;-) But why is CONFIG_PREEMPT=y recomended for desktop systems like mine?
Ciao Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are just a few running with Windows or even CE ;-)
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