[Fwd: Severn kernel on Red Hat 9]

[Bill Nottingham]

Ian Pilcher (i.pilcher at comcast.net) said: 
> Has anyone managed to get Red Hat 9 working with the Severn kernel(s)?
> I would really like to use the i686 SMP kernel, since it fixes an IRQ
> routing bug and allows the system to recognize my USB scanner and
> printer (without any performance-sucking workarounds).
> 
> Unfortunately, the RH9 X server segfaults when I try to run it on top of
> the Severn kernel (XFree86-4.3.0-2, mga driver).
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks!

You need to upgrade X to deal with some of the exec shield stuff.

Bill