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Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 04 April 2008 17:15:45 David C. Rankin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The report has some points not clear.
For one thing, if the problem occurs _only_ when the nvidia driver loaded, the one made by nvidia, then you will have a very hard time convincing anyone to even look at it. It is closed source! The kernel puts a message saying "Tainted!", and developers will not touch it as if it were leprous.
They have their reasons and I wont argue them, nor who is to blame, but it is a sad situation for users, who certainly are not to be blamed. This is like a city transport strike: they go against the management, but it is the users who suffer it. Carlos,
If they had given that answer I would be 100% happy with it. The problem I have with the response I received is that it smelled very much like a George Bush justification for closing the bug. You know the type, an explanation that just can't be trusted.
You seem to be misunderstanding what "mce" is. A machine check exception is the hardware itself telling you that something has gone badly wrong. There is no interpretation involved in the software. The software just logs the message
If the mce says it is a hardware problem, you can count on its being a hardware problem
Anders
I also found this interesting: Machine check handling on Linux Andi Kleen SUSE Labs ak@suse.de Aug 2004 Sources of machine checks can be the CPU, PCI IO1, memory, caches, internal busses. The errors can be corrected errors (only logged to registers, no exception) or uncorrected errors (exception happens, software must react). When PCI IO errors are enabled "machine checks could be also caused by software bugs in drivers". (however normally not the case) see: http://www.halobates.de/mce.pdf -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org