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

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Jun 3 11:03:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Ian Burrell wrote:

> Vincent Yau wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> The 4k stack comes from a custom patch to the Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 kernel. 
>   It was included in the stock 2.6.6 kernel as a config option.  It 
> supposed to be possible to rebuild the kernel from the patched 
> kernel-source package without that config option.

Also the closed source nVIDIA driver has the problem with 4k stacks.  The 
Open Source driver does not.






More information about the PLUG mailing list