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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote:

> The system appears to be ok and boots happily to a console but if you
> load any graphical UI, the screen will blank and the process stops
> working (tested with opie and and xserver+GPE). You can kill -9 the
> process but you can't regain the console without a suspend/resume cycle
> which performs enough of a reset to get it back. chvt and the console
> switching keys don't respond.

Is this related to the size of the process? Can you do a successful kernel 
compile w/o X?
 
> I tried the patch mentioned in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/28/304 but it
> makes no difference.

Yes that only helps if compilation fails and its alread in rc4-mm1 AFAIK.