From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3N5y-0007Ra-QX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33D93E0580; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out1.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17C5E0580 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A7676AF for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:03 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <492630AB.4070402@netspace.net.au> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:23:15 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random segfaults with kernel 2.6.27 References: <350fc7cf0811201707y638930ddy4f2cc9bd4caabab7@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0811201820t5fd8c470q2af0639d4c59e232@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <350fc7cf0811201820t5fd8c470q2af0639d4c59e232@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 03d8c811-fb51-44cb-912b-04670f6c2501 X-Archives-Hash: 168a51f8ea1dc2ca34a4a6b9b1f109bd Andrey Falko wrote: > On 11/20/08, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> As it happens, upgrading to kernel 2.6.27 was not the only change; I >> switched from xf86-video-radeonhd to the proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers. >> Didn't think that this has anything to do with it though. > > > I have a hunch that this is the problem. Have you tried 2.6.27 without the > proprietary ATI drivers? This is the first thing I would suspect because ATI > drivers are not reputed --- or so I believe --- for being the best quality > software out there. Either way, we need to eliminate as many factors as > possible and one of these factors is your ATI driver change. I don't know > much about Prime95, but if it won't simulate a subtlety in your video > drivers, especially how proprietary ATI drivers will play with kernel > 2.6.27. I would definitely say this is worth looking into - not necessarily because the ati-drivers are bad software but because they have always stressed my hardware more than any open source drivers (and yielded better performance too). FWIW I've never known any stress test to be as good as compiling openoffice :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan QOTD: "There may be no excuse for laziness, but I'm sure looking."