On Sun, Dec 11, 2005, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:05:23PM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: > > As the 64bit kernel seemed to remain a possible source of error, I installed a > > 32bit Athlon K7 image. > > > > The result is: Everthing works fine! > > > > So the 64 bit kernel with 32 bit userland is obviously a problem. Or is > > it 64bit kernel in general? > > The point is that it should work. I would be interested to find > out why it didn't. The compat ioctl code is just too convoluted for me to understand ;-( Anyway, should be fixed int the next kernel release (or current -rc): http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e87abd0b8cbb23ed9ffe5cc9f790fb5cac45eae Johannes