Subject: Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Bradley Reed <bradreed1@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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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