XF4 hangs on 2.4 kernel (was: Re: Control fb problem on 8500)

[Michel Lanners]

On  19 Aug, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace:
>>My XFree 4.0 goes into an infinite loop eating CPU time when I boot a
>>2.4.0 kernel. Xpmac does work, but with the artifact described in my
>>previous mail.
>
> I have this exact same problem with XF4 on my Pismo (r128) with any 2.4.
> The X server dies in this infinite loop and a black screen. Theo only way
> I found to get the screen back is to telnet into the box, kill -9 the X
> server, and launch Xpmac. This seems to restore the console system into a
> working state.

Ahh, so that problem is not control-specific.

> I don't know what's up yet.

Are you using the new input layer from bk? I'm not; I use Paul's devel
tree, which doesn't include that part yet.

Strange...

Michel

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