[WBEL-users] Custom kernel issues (X-server crashes)

[Kay Diederichs]

Samuel Plachel wrote:
> I switched to WBEL from Fedora Core 2 only a week or so ago - and I have
> to say, I really, really like it; the only problem I have is that I
> cannot get a custom kernel to work properly. I got the sources via YUM
> but had to use a vanilla kernel instead because I need software suspend
> (and those patches cannot be aplied to patched sources as the original
> WBEL ones). So I copied the .config of the original sources.
> 
> I experienced various problems then because I never compiled a 2.4
> kernel before (I did SOME 2.6 on FC2 though); now I got everything fixed
> except for a very strange thing: X doesn't start any more - the only
> (and I really looked close ;)) message I get is:
> 
> XIO:	fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0
> 	after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> There is NO warning or error in /var/log/XFree.0.log however so I'm
> really stuck here. My video card is a Intel I815 which seems to use i810
> driver on my /working/ kernel according to lsmod.
> 
> Help, suggestions or whatever would be appreciated a lot!
> 
> Kind regards.


this should be a FAQ.
You need to mv the contents of /lib/tls out of the way
(e.g. 'mv /lib/tls /lib/tls-dontuse').
The reason is that the vanilla kernel is not NPTL-enabled. See my 
previous postings - the NVIDIA driver has a similar problem.

Kay