Problem with Loki games on Severn

[Pavel Rosenboim]

Alan Cox wrote:

>> When booting either of these, heroes3 works fine.  It's only when I boot
>> Severn's kernel (kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl) that the crash occurs.
>>
>> So I guess "something" changed in the kernel which somehow displeases
>> heroes3...
>>
>> I'd be happy to try any patch... ;-)
> 
> Ok can you try a completely vanilla kernel (say 2.4.22). The RH kernel
> changes some aspects of the application memory layout and does a few other
> things that *ought* 8) to be harmless

Can NPTL be disabled with 'nosysinfo' boot parameter like in RH 9? May
be this also worth trying.

Pavel.