Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:57:50 -0100
From: René Kuligowski <renekuligowski@alice-dsl.net>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
On 28.12.2013 23:46, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote:
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your quick answer,… but (sounds like a pouting little boy, I
know):
Sorry, but I cannot file a bug report against, say, nvidia-glx, because
it is most likely not the cause.
Sure it is.
when I use the exactly same driver from te NVidia site as in debian 6?
Unlikely.
The problem is far more likely kernel
3.x- and/or gcc-related, and I need somebody who knows more intimate
workings of debian 7 before I can file a bug report to the correct
topic/person:
But you just rejected the advice of one such person. Do you want advice
or not?
Sure. But advice that makes sense and doesn't assume I don't now at all
what I am talking about.
–– newer BIOS for my machine does not exist. Current/last is from
2009. And, like I wrote, it works perfectly with debian 6 (kernel 2.6)
or winXP/win7. *without* *any* problems. And I don't exactly care if
APM/ACPI standards have changed in the meantime. Debian used to be
backward-compatible to even twenty-years-old hardware and their specs.
I don't believe this was ever true, and it should not be a high priority
for us.
[...]
–– with kernel *2.6* on debian 6, this does not happen, while I use
exactly the same settings, libraries, modules, and X modules (well, libs
with a smaller sub-version number). With debian 6 using a 3.x kernel,
*the same* happens as I described here for debian 7.
[...]
You are also using a new version of the nvidia driver with this
kernel...
wrong. I use the 290, same version I use in debian 6.
Ben.
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