On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:12:59 -0400
>From: Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.0-test{7-8} and radeon drm segfault
>
>On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 05:28, Louis Garcia wrote:
>> I've been playing with kernel-2.6 on redhat's latest beta. With my
>> radeon 7500 drm works great. When I boot to kernel-2.6 latest, I
>> modprobeagpgart, intel-agp and radeon. Startx and run glxinfo
>> and glxgears and both segfault. Anyone else seeing this? This
>> also happens if these are build statically. How is the stability of the
>> dri drivers in kernel-2.6.x?
>
>Hi, I just dealt with this problem yesterday in Gentoo. You need to
>prevent the patch named similar to Mesa-SSE-fixes-from-MesaCVS.patch
>from being applied.
>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30541

Which of course would reinstate the bug that that patch fixes for 
all 2.4.x users, which is the overwhelming majority of users out 
there.

The proper fix is to fix both problems, not substitute one for 
the other - although the latter is probably fine for homebrew 
systems.

-- 
Mike A. Harris



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