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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 30 January 2011 12:40:29 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I haven't used the closed source ATI driver for long but I don't |
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>> remember seeing this dmesg error before. It's not high priority for me |
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>> as I'll be switching out the graphics card to an NVidia card hopefully |
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>> tomorrow, but is this something that should get reported somewhere, or |
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>> is it just the nature of the fglrx driver? Or maybe I've not |
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>> configured the kernel as well as it could before this driver? |
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>> Kernel is 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, ati-drivers-10.11. |
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>> I did do a modules-rebuild -X rebuild and reboot to ensure it's |
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>> repeatable. |
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>> I suspect the LKML doesn't want this report as it's a closed source |
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>> driver. Do the XFree guys want it? |
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> certainly not. You don't use anything from Xfree. |
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My bad. Really I guess I meant X.org |
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http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ |
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They supply the server, correct? And everything going to the fglrx |
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driver comes from the server, somehow, doesn't it? |
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None the less it seems like the message suggests that the driver is |
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coded incorrectly. |
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Please note that I don't actually see any problems. The system |
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continues to work about as well as it ever has with this card/driver |
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combination, and there's only a few of these messages in dmesg. |
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>> AMD maybe? |
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> certainly. If you can reproduce it with a vanilla kernel. |
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> Because I don't see anything like this with vanilla kernels. |
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Yeah, probably too much work for the time I have available right now, |
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and if I remove the HD 5770 in favor of the new NVidia card tomorrow |
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afternoon then it won't happen until I try the card in some system at |
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a future date. (Assuming I don't sell it as 'used' and just be done |
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with ATI for the 4th time...) |
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Also, there is a 10.12 driver in portage that wasn't available when I |
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switched to fglrx. I should try that also. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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