The X server crashes under the current RawHide release. This has been tested with both a SparcStation 4 and 5, with a cgsix framebuffer. You can crash the server immediately by running 'x11perf -all' and moving the mouse. It seems that this problem is related to compiling the kernel with egcs-1.1.2. If you compile the kernel with the RH 5.1 egcs-1.0.2 then the X server is stable. Here is the '/proc/version' for the buggy kernel: Linux version 2.2.5-6 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Apr 9 01:07:10 EDT 1999 The following is for the kernel that runs the kernel reliably: Linux version 2.2.5-6 (root.com) (gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)) #6 Tue Apr 27 12:59:44 IDT 1999
Fixed in Red Hat Linux 6.0