Re: XFree 4.0 crashes with SRM

[Jeff Sturm <jeff sturm appnet com>]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 
> Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks Rich.  I ran XFree86 under gdb (remotely) to get some better
> > data.  It dies with a SIGILL in miIntersect():
> >
> > 0x120178258 <miIntersect+280>:        maxsw4  t6,t1,t1
> >
> > That mean anything to anybody?  I'm using SRM V5.6-3, kernel 2.2.14.
> 
> Yup.  SRM on the SX disables the MVI instructions.  Try this patch
> (from Ivan Koshaysky via linux-alpha@vger):

Yay!  It works.  For a moment I was worried I'd have to go back to MILO,
or cripple my X server... that Voodoo3 sure is *fast* on 4.0.

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Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@appnet.com