Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:57:14 -0500 |
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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
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