Which is the correct way to report a bug ?

Alessandro Boggiano boggiano at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 06:56:04 UTC 2009


Il 28/07/2009 18:50, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:40 +0200, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
>> Il 28/07/2009 15:47, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
>>> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 15:49 +0200, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
>>>> I'm aware about bugzilla but I'd like to be sure HOW to report this.
>>>> The problem seems related to the intel driver.
>>>>    From /var/log/messages the first line is:
>>>>
>>>> "Kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem:2241!"

>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510948
>>
>> I filled this:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514240
>
> I think the real problem is likely to be in the Intel driver code, it's
> just that one version of Mesa tickles it and another doesn't. The fact
> that the Kernel itself reports a bug is indicative of this. A library
> should not be able to cause this kind of behaviour under any
> circumstances.

I agree!
And now I'm a little scared because I have to buy a new Dell laptop and 
I have to choose between an Intel or an ATI videocard.
Looking into testing repositories I haven't seen nothing about intel.





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