Re: xdm oopses

[Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:58:15AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:11:17PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> > Other than that, your patch works fine for me; my Indy has 192MB
> > memory and it's detected properly.  I do get an oops in do_be from
> > xdm, but I get that without the patch also.

> That's xdm reading heaps of data from /dev/mem blindly (touching regions
> it better shouldn't read from) for prng purposes. We had a fix in
> Debian's xdm, hope the problem didn't creep back in. What X are you
> running?

This is from Debian - 4.1.0-16.

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