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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] linux-2.6.16-hardened-r11 issues (*.14-*-r8 is o.k.)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:28:44
Message-Id: 1157937989.6377.6.camel@here.linbsd.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] linux-2.6.16-hardened-r11 issues (*.14-*-r8 is o.k.) by dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51@Safe-mail.net
1 On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 18:10 -0400, dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51@×××××××××.net
2 wrote:
3 > linux-2.6.14-hardened-r8 runs great; loads fast and seems to function properly.
4 >
5 > linux-2.6.16-hardened-r11 loads a little slower (especially during startup udev), and runs great for a day or two 'til suddenly the mouse cursor becomes "trapped" within 1/2 inch of the left border of my screen.
6 >
7 > - I've tried radeon and fglrx drivers in X; no difference.
8 >
9 > - r8 and r11 are configured comparably.
10 >
11 > - I've googled about for this, and found no help..........
12 >
13 >
14 > Any ideas, please?
15
16 A few of us were experiencing this same problem..
17 Many countless hours of frustration and many recompiles of things
18 in vein.. In the end I noticed that somehow preempt became enabled in my
19 kernel. I don't recall enabling it or anything...
20 Anyway disable PREEMPT in your kernel and the problem should go away.
21
22 What we noticed is it only seems to happen to laptop/synaptics users..
23
24
25 >
26 > TIA
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28 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
29 Gentoo Linux
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