Bug#607534: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: crash upon calling 'startx'

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Hi Ian,

On Mon, 20.12.2010 at 10:38:46 +0000, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> This is likely the same underlying issue as 601341 and friends, which is
> that the Xen dom0 kernel does not currently fully support DRI/DRM
> graphics.

thanks for the heads-up. Uhhh...

> Patches which resolve the issue have been posted upstream, but I don't
> know if the maintainer accepted them yet. The patches also need a
> non-trivial amount of backport to the kernel to be used in Squeeze.

Hmmm. Would it be reasonable to switch to eg. 2.6.36 or higher?

> > The problem appears to occur only with the entry in grub.cfg that I
> > marked below, but I only tried the first and the marked entry
> > (...XEN 4.0"):
> 
> That is the only entry which would result in you running under Xen so
> this is not surprising.

Ok. Thank you for the explanation.


Kind regards,
--Toni++