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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > > Downgrading Virtualbox to 4.3.20-r1 fixes the problem on one ~amd64 |
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> > > machine but, of course, not the other one <sigh>. |
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> > (not the xf86-* |
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> File a bug at b.g.o. |
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> what you describe has much potential to trip up many people |
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Well, I have to concur with what I did not prune out of this thread. |
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My recent experience with xf86* on my amd64 and the 3.18.6 kernel |
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had me reading quite a few horror stories of others; finally I |
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found a solution, that is more a result of "marathonic" efforts |
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as opposed to finding the correct nuggets of information. |
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I.E. in this area I'm willing to bet there are ample bugs |
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and things that have been modified or fixed, but the knowledge |
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is just not disseminated. I filed no bugs because clarity |
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never appeared as to the exact problem(s). |
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For example in /lib/firmware/radeon I have these relevant drivers |
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some are lower case some are uppercase and my card requires the (V|v)erde* |
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drivers and at least one "TAHITI" driver..... In fact the inter |
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relationships on some kernel options are there, but are not, or |
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are "poorly", defined. I think this is a result of the quickened |
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turn_around speed of the kernel versions. Quality was sacrificed, |
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imho. |
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I found no documentation as to why. It's just a mess, imho. I could |
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list dozens of things, but the impression I got was (dev)folks are |
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hacking at this, but it's not cleaned up because there is little |
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clarity for (kernel) devs or other subsequent development efforts. |
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I sure hope I'm wrong. ymmv. |
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James |
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