Re: The time has come ...
--On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 6:45 pm +1100 "Anton Blanchard"
<anton@progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> I switched back to 2.1.125 and the situation is now:
>> startx as root works OK, but when you end the X-session, the kernel
>> halts itself.
>> xdm works OK, but if you kill xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm stop) the kernel
>> commits suicide :-(
>
> Are you using a cgsix framebuffer? The current kernels have a problem with
the
> cgsix, which Davem narrowed down to the cg6_reset function.
>
> Do you get booted back to the PROM? If so can you get the results of:
>
> .locals
> .registers
> ctrace
>
> As well as your System.map
Hmm. It does sound exactly like that.
Unfortunately the PROM is rarely readable, since the CLUT has generally made
background == foreground. However, I'll try to get those data.
How come I never read about this on sparclinux@vger? Did I just miss it?
Jules
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