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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:47:42
Message-Id: 200509141645.10555.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905 by Daniel Drake
1 On Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:52, Daniel Drake wrote:
2 > Frank Schafer wrote:
3 > > Does someone know if it's worth a try with the vanilla and if vanilla
4 > > here means a really vanilla from kernel.org or if it's sufficient to
5 > > get the (too patched and thus not so vanilla) vanilla-sources.
6 >
7 > vanilla-sources is not patched.
8 >
9 > > Please be kind with me regarding to the fact that I'm posting here.
10 > > On the gentoo mailing list I get only replies like: "You probably
11 > > have faulty memory." If THIS would be the fact the bug would show up
12 > > randomly in different ebuilds or at least at different lines of code.
13 >
14 > Faulty hardware can cause all kinds of unexplainable behaviour. Don't
15 > base your judgement on this.
16 >
17 > One final point, if you are running vesafb-tng and have >=1GB RAM then
18 > try turning off vesafb-tng for now.
19
20 You might also take a look at bug #20600 for an overview of all kinds of
21 ICE errors.
22
23 Paul
24
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26 Paul de Vrieze
27 Gentoo Developer
28 Mail: pauldv@g.o
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