Bug#293722: grub: simulated stack not marked PROT_EXEC, causes segfaults on new hardware

2005-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
Package: grub Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-12 Severity: important When using Linux 2.6.10, grub's 'install' command segfaults on new hardware that has the NX bit available (e.g. AMD64, and I think also new Pentium 4 systems). This turns out to be because: * grub's Unix shell allocates a region of

Re: Installing Nvidia 1.0.6629 Driver

2005-02-05 Thread Paul Brook
On Saturday 05 February 2005 07:23, SpikeyGG wrote: Theodore, I tried what you suggested about making the symbolic link and it appears to have half-way worked. Now when I kick off X it shows me the Nvidia logo for a little while but then jumps back out (without reporting any errors to

Kernel panic on boot with 2.6.10 Kernel

2005-02-05 Thread Gordon Ball
Having until recently been using the stock 2.6.8-1-amd64-k8 kernel (without problems), I decided to try and compile a new one myself. Using the package for kernel-source-2.6.10 I compiled a monolithic kernel with (I think) everything essential for boot compiled into the kernel. In this

Re: Kernel panic on boot with 2.6.10 Kernel

2005-02-05 Thread Filippo Carone
* Gordon Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ha scritto: Having until recently been using the stock 2.6.8-1-amd64-k8 kernel (without problems), I decided to try and compile a new one myself. Using the package for kernel-source-2.6.10 I compiled a monolithic kernel with (I think) everything essential

Re: Kernel panic on boot with 2.6.10 Kernel

2005-02-05 Thread Gordon Ball
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:01:30 +0100, Filippo Carone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gordon Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ha scritto: Having until recently been using the stock 2.6.8-1-amd64-k8 kernel (without problems), I decided to try and compile a new one myself. Using the package for

Re: Kernel panic on boot with 2.6.10 Kernel

2005-02-05 Thread Gordon Ball
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to make any difference. Are the kernel options (root, real_root) unchanged in this version? On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:20:54 +, Gordon Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:01:30 +0100, Filippo Carone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gordon Ball ([EMAIL

compiling custom kernel with gcc-3.4

2005-02-05 Thread Jonathan Marchand
Hi, I'am running an amd64 laptop and I would like to build a kernel with gcc-.34 like the kernel images avaible on the internet. Therefore, it seems I can only build kernel with gcc-3.3. I did change some variables in the kernel-source's Makefile and the environment variables, but the resulting

libxf86config.a can't be used by shared libraries

2005-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:22, Simon Edwards wrote: It appears that libxf86config.a can't be used by shared libraries. It doesn't appear to have been compiled correctly using the -fPIC compile option. I'm currently developing a util in Python that uses has a C extension which uses

Re: libxf86config.a can't be used by shared libraries

2005-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday 05 February 2005 23:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sebastian Kügler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:22, Simon Edwards wrote: It appears that libxf86config.a can't be used by shared libraries. It doesn't appear to have been compiled correctly using the

Re: libxf86config.a can't be used by shared libraries

2005-02-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sebastian Kügler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are exactly identical files, hence the error from linking to either one is the same. miro.sebas(~): md5sum /usr/X11R6/lib/libxf86config*.a 27db885b4c292588c6c55ae951c85132 /usr/X11R6/lib/libxf86config.a 27db885b4c292588c6c55ae951c85132

Re: Tracking sarge

2005-02-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Kurt Roeckx wrote on 03/02/2005 18:24: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: From what I heart you won't feel the difference. The advantage of a 64bit kernel lies in having more than 3GB address space (more than 4GB for 64bit) programs and the possibility of more

K8 Mainboard Compatibility Update

2005-02-05 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
The Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP has a VIA rhine LAN adapter as well as the r8169 shown in the table (2 ports). Also it has via82xx audio that isn't shown in the table. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Fwd: Re: address space (was Re: Tracking sarge)

2005-02-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
I guess other people might be interested in this too. Kurt ---BeginMessage--- On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:24:26AM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote on 03/02/2005 18:24: Actually, you can use 4GB of address space for userspace. For 32bit userspace or also for 64bit userspace?

Re: Tracking sarge

2005-02-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or in other words: With a 64bit (amd64) kernel, where are the actual limits for: 32bit Apps ~4 GiB 64bit Apps 17179869184 GiB theoretically ~262144 GiB on current CPUs (- a few GiB the kernel reserves) Thanks, Sven MfG Goswin -- To