Description of Problem: X locks at startup if the DRI is enabled. It stops after displaying the crosshatch background and the cursor. Neither ctrl-alt-del or SAK will kill X, but the box is still running. XFree86-4.1.0-0.9.11 kernel-2.4.7-0.8 The following oops was recorded: Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-226 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-226 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 440M Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xc0000000 256MB Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: [drm] Initialized mga 3.0.2 20010321 on minor 0 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5a5a5a5a Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: printing eip: Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: e0962d40 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: *pde = 00000000 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: Oops: 0000 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e0962d40>] Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: EFLAGS: 00013206 Aug 10 08:52:01 mothra kernel: eax: 0000000c ebx: 5a5a5a5a ecx: d125d35c edx: e096c02c Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: esi: d2e3afb4 edi: 00000001 ebp: e0973820 esp: d11f1c54 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Process X (pid: 1589, stackpage=d11f1000) Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Stack: dcfe79bc 00001000 dffe4f68 4001b000 c012784f dcfe79bc dcfe7974 00000080 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: 00000000 d11f1ed4 00000000 dce32060 d11f1d78 dffe4f68 d11f0000 c013fc03 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: dffe4f68 dce32060 d11f1d78 00000000 d11f0000 c013fd64 00000000 d11f1d78 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Call Trace: [exit_mmap+111/288] [exec_mmap+35/288] [flush_old_exec+100/592] [load_elf_binary+1150/2640] [eepro100:__insmod_eepro100_O/lib/modules/2.4.7-0.8/kernel/drivers/ne+-439470/96] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Call Trace: [<c012784f>] [<c013fc03>] [<c013fd64>] [<c0150ffe>] [<e083bb52>] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: [eepro100:__insmod_eepro100_O/lib/modules/2.4.7-0.8/kernel/drivers/ne+-497939/96] [load_elf_binary+0/2640] [search_binary_handler+113/384] [do_execve+380/480] [getname+94/160] [sys_execve+48/96] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: [<e082d6ed>] [<c0150b80>] [<c0140371>] [<c01405fc>] [<c01414be>] [<c0105b40>] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: [system_call+51/56] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: [<c0106f0b>] Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: Code: 8b 13 8d 47 01 39 72 3c 0f 44 f8 3b 54 24 14 75 25 85 c9 74 Aug 10 08:52:02 mothra kernel: exit_mmap: map count is 24 more details available on request.
This is not surprising. ;o) 4.1.0 DRM is not in that kernel. You need a 2.4.7-0.9.2 kernel or later.