[PLUG] A bit confused about 2.6 kernel and X drivers

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Wed Jun 2 17:04:01 UTC 2004


I have a nvidia card, I tried the 2.6.6 kernel without luck.

I had to use the 2.6.5, this worked well.

I don't think there was a 4k stack problem with 2.6.4, I think it was
introduced in the 2.6.6


Sean

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:05, Vincent Yau wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Sorry if this appears to be a stupid question...
> 
> I put in Fedora rc2 on several boxes last week
> and one of the boxes has an Nvidia Quattro card that
> seems to run into that 4k stack problem.  So I cannot fire up X.
> 
> I got hold of an SuSE 9.1 demo CD over the weekend and
> I just sticked it into the very same Quattro box today.  It is demo only but 
> it has a KDE environment and
> X is firing up just fine.  It is running kernel 2.6.4.
> 
> So is the 4k stack problem appears only in post-2.6.4 kernel?
> I think Fedora RC2 ships with 2.6.5.
> 
> --Vincent
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