[Fwd: Severn kernel on Red Hat 9]

[Ian Pilcher]

Has anyone managed to get Red Hat 9 working with the Severn kernel(s)?
I would really like to use the i686 SMP kernel, since it fixes an IRQ
routing bug and allows the system to recognize my USB scanner and
printer (without any performance-sucking workarounds).

Unfortunately, the RH9 X server segfaults when I try to run it on top of
the Severn kernel (XFree86-4.3.0-2, mga driver).

Any ideas?  Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher(a)comcast.net
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[Sean Middleditch]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:34, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>  Has anyone managed to get Red Hat 9 working with the Severn
> kernel(s)?
>  I would really like to use the i686 SMP kernel, since it fixes an IRQ
>  routing bug and allows the system to recognize my USB scanner and
>  printer (without any performance-sucking workarounds).
>  
>  Unfortunately, the RH9 X server segfaults when I try to run it on top of
>  the Severn kernel (XFree86-4.3.0-2, mga driver).
>  
>  Any ideas?  Thanks! 
Upgrade X too?

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[Bill Nottingham]

Ian Pilcher (i.pilcher(a)comcast.net) said: 
>  Has anyone managed to get Red Hat 9 working with the Severn
> kernel(s)?
>  I would really like to use the i686 SMP kernel, since it fixes an IRQ
>  routing bug and allows the system to recognize my USB scanner and
>  printer (without any performance-sucking workarounds).
>  
>  Unfortunately, the RH9 X server segfaults when I try to run it on top of
>  the Severn kernel (XFree86-4.3.0-2, mga driver).
>  
>  Any ideas?  Thanks! 
You need to upgrade X to deal with some of the exec shield stuff.

Bill

[Ian Pilcher]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  
>  You need to upgrade X to deal with some of the exec shield stuff.
>   
Thanks!  I had forgotten Exec-shield.

Instead of upgrading X I just put "kernel.exec-shield = 0" in
/etc/sysctl.conf.  Seems to work.

I checked, and I couldn't find any indication in /var/log/messages or
/var/log/secure that it was Exec-shield that was causing X to crash.
I'm not sure how much software out there will have this problem, but I
can imagine quite a rash of frustrated users and bug reports when
Cambridge goes GA.  (CCing rhl-beta-list for this reason.)

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher(a)comcast.net
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