Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote: > Your /proc/cpuinfo indicates you have an Athlon64, but you are running an X > server binary meant for i686's. That's not likely to work. > > Marc. The question then is how could it work before? The Athlon64 is designed to be fully PC/x86-compatible: it works only in 32-bit mode unless one has a 64-bit operating system that turns on the appropriate hardware bits to make it a 64-bit machine - but I don't have such an operating system, so if the Athlon was operating in 64-bit mode I could not even boot. The fact is that the exact same program (the X server) and its supporting files, running on exactly the same hardware, was fully functional under the Linux-2.6.8-pre2 and earlier kernels and crash under kernels from Linux-2.6.8-pre3 onward, so it must be either a newly introduced kernel bug, or an old bug in the X server making wrong assumptions about some unpromised kernel behaviour. Perhaps it would help if I could lay my hands on a binary version of the "X" program that has more debug information that I can present to this list. Amnon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My original query was: > My X server worked well until I upgrated my kernel to Linux-2.6.8: > It still works with kernels up to Linux-2.6.8-pre2, but crashes with > segmentation-fault on any kernel from linux-2.6.8-pre3 onward. > So far, this only happens on my AMD computer, and regardless of > which video-card I use (I tried three different cards - two AGP > and one PCI) and whether I configure the driver to be VESA or not, > or even VGA. The exact same software however, works fine when being > run on a Pentium-4. > This first happened on XFree 4.3.0, so I just installed the latest > XFree 4.4.0, but it makes no difference. > I am using a plain kernel with no modules and no direct rendering, > as I do not even require any fancy acceleration, just that I can > get into graphics mode from time to time to view the web. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
