On Thursday 07 November 2002 02:35, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > I just installed the latest kernel from rawhide, rebuild the > vmware modules and noticed that vmware did not crash anymore! > (libnice did not ssem to work for me though)
Yes, I just checked and the kernel in rawhide does not have the linux-2.4.18-scheduler-fixes.patch that was introduced in the official kernels for 8.0 and involved changing the nice value. I am not sure why the patch was originally needed but it gave vmware problems. That is not to say that vmware did things correctly -- they just check the return code of nice() and treat a value of -1 as an error even it no error occured and the -1 was valid. -- Gene
