Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random segfaults with kernel 2.6.27

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:

>> 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).
>
> I have opened a bug for it, but it got closed immediately because I have
> no evidence to support it. lol :P
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247860

AFAIR Jer is only a wrangler (ok, "only" is not the right word, but you 
know what I mean) so he's likely not going to get into too much detail 
about the specifics of the bug wrt fglrx, ati, etc.  You'd have better 
luck talking to a dev who deals with fglrx or the kernel, and convincing 
them to look at it.

I know it can be frustrating to have bugs marked as INVALID, but saying 
"your justification for marking this as INVALID is actually the invalid 
thing here ... not my bug report" is probably going to get you ignored!

I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I do think you will have a hard 
time getting hard evidence it's specifically the fglrx driver, and not 
some effect the fglrx driver is having on your hw...

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