Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1? | Date | Mon, 02 Jan 2006 08:33:47 +1100 |
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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.
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