Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike <whodie@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random segfaults with kernel 2.6.27
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:51:56
Message-Id: 49263056.5040206@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Random segfaults with kernel 2.6.27 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > Reverting back to the open source radeonhd driver made this stop. This
4 > is a serious issue because you'll get segfaults only if you're lucky. If
5 > not lucky, bad machine code could be produced which on Gentoo being
6 > source-based is the worst scenario imaginable.
7 >
8 I have been getting random segfaults too using kernels 2.6.26 AND 2.6.27
9 using the nvidia driver. I never had problems like this before.