From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Bradley Reed <bradreed1@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 08:33:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29832.1136151227@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:57:14 CDT." <1136141835.13079.49.camel@mindpipe>
Lee Revell (on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:57:14 -0500) wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 14:31 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>> On Sunday 01 January 2006 09:14, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 20:29 +0200, Bradley Reed wrote:
>> > > I have tried MPlayer versions 1.0pre6, 1.0pre7, and cvs from today and
>> > > they all work fine under 2.6.14 and 2.6.14-rt21/22.
>> > >
>> > > I booted into 2.6.15-rc7-rt1 and the same MPlayer binaries segfault on
>> > > every video I try and play. Yes, I have nvidia modules loaded, so won't
>> > > get much help, but thought someone might like to know.
>> >
>> > you know, you could have done a little bit more effort and reproduced
>> > this without the binary crud... it's not that hard you know and it shows
>> > that you actually care about the problem enough that you want to make it
>> > worthwhile for people to look into it.
>>
>> REPORTING-BUGS should probably be fixed to make the points you repeatedly have
>> to make. I agree 100% that people should not be reporting easily reproducible
>> bugs with proprietary drivers loaded; what's a reboot to them?
>>
>> Let's add something to REPORTING-BUGS about tainted kernels and/or proprietary
>> drivers. A quick grep of this file from 2.6.15-rc6 gives me no hits for
>> "proprietary", "tainted" or "binary".
>>
>
>Heh, wow, that's a serious omission. It would explain why so many users
>post tainted bug reports then act like we're fanatics for telling them
>not to do that ;-)
Historically this was covered in the kernel FAQ, see
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/#s1-18.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-01 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-31 18:29 MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1? Bradley Reed
2005-12-31 18:47 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-31 18:59 ` Bradley Reed
2005-12-31 19:14 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-31 19:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-31 20:07 ` Bradley Reed
2005-12-31 20:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-31 20:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-31 22:46 ` RTC broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1 (was: Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?) Steven Rostedt
2005-12-31 23:22 ` Bradley Reed
2006-01-01 0:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-01 9:14 ` MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1? Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-01 9:51 ` Bradley Reed
2006-01-01 11:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-01 12:12 ` jerome lacoste
2006-01-01 12:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-02 9:57 ` [OT] " jerome lacoste
2006-01-01 13:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-01 14:21 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-01-01 17:50 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-01-01 11:50 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <20060101145402.0c6292bb@galactus.example.org>
2006-01-01 13:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-01 13:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-01 13:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-01 15:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-01 15:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-01 14:31 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-01 18:57 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-01 21:33 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-01-01 22:57 ` Alistair John Strachan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-31 18:18 Bradley Reed
2005-12-31 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
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