Re: Why would patch cause problems?

2004-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-18 20:03, Tuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a little more investigation of the problem with nVidia on
> 5.2.1-RELEASE-pX where X is higher than 4...
>
> It turns out that after hand applying patches, once I apply the
> "msync5.patch" that was p9, my nVidia X starts to have problems and lock up.
> Once I back this out, the machine operates properly.  I also ran into problems
> where programs were coreing on Signal 6's SSH became useless, perl would
> fall over randomly, etc.
>
> This patch was all of 6 new lines, one changed line, but I can swap
> back and forth and know that this will cause my machine to misbehave/crash.
>
> Is there any way to start talking to someone to figure out what the
> cause is and maybe have a change done?

If the patch is so small, you could post it here, to -hackers or -current, and
see if someone has an idea why you see the change in your system's behavior
that you describe.

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Why would patch cause problems?

2004-10-18 Thread Tuc
Hi,

I did a little more investigation of the problem with nVidia on 
5.2.1-RELEASE-pX where X is higher than 4...

It turns out that after hand applying patches, once I apply the
"msync5.patch" that was p9, my nVidia X starts to have problems and lock up.
Once I back this out, the machine operates properly.  I also ran into problems
where programs were coreing on Signal 6's SSH became useless, perl would
fall over randomly, etc.

This patch was all of 6 new lines, one changed line, but I can swap
back and forth and know that this will cause my machine to misbehave/crash.

Is there any way to start talking to someone to figure out what the
cause is and maybe have a change done?

Thanks, Tuc
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