Re: 2.6.15-git breaks Xorg on em64t

From: Dave Jones
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 02:05:46 EST


On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:05:07AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:51, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:43:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:52, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > Andi,
> > > > Sometime in the last week something was introduced to Linus'
> > > > tree which makes my dual EM64T go nuts when X tries to start.
> > > > By "go nuts", I mean it does various random things, seen so
> > > > far..
> > > > - Machine check. (I'm convinced this isn't a hardware problem
> > > > despite the new addition telling me otherwise :)
> > >
> > > Normally it should be impossible to cause machine checks from software
> > > on Intel systems.
> >
> > -git7+ is the only time I've ever seen one on this box.
>
> What happens when you apply
>
> ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/page-table-setup

What does this apply to ? Is it dependant on something else not
merged yet ? I get rejects when I apply it to 2.6.15-git10

I don't have time to fix it up by hand right now (I was going to set
a build going before I turned in for the night..)

I'll poke at it again tomorrow.

Another datapoint btw: I've another EM64T that works just fine.
The one that fails is the only one that isn't using onboard VGA,
this one has a PCIE Radeon. Given it happens when X is starting up,
it could be that the X radeon driver does something special which
is why others aren't seeing this.

Dave
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