Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?

Lee Revell
2006-01-01T18:57:20Z

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 ;-)

Lee