Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?

Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-01T14:31:01Z

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".

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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