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
Anders, There is some very interesting reading about this _hardware_ error I'm experiencing. It seems the exact _hardware_ error I'm experiencing what actually a _software_ error in the x86_64 code base that was "fixed" a while back. I sure seems suspicious that I am now getting these same errors. I've seen it before and it's not too uncommon for a subsequent change to another part of the code to "unfix" an earlier solution. How do I go about finding out if this is one of those potential situations. This is what I really thought the developers would do when I filed the bug. How does a mere mortal go about such a task? For reference see: https://www.x86-64.org/pipermail/patches/2004-June.txt.gz -- 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