On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > Nov 29, 2011 02:09:37 AM, Simon wrote: > > > A little dramatic, don't you think? The world isn't going to end, just > > because you've found a bug in a video driver... > > In the KERNEL Simon, in the KERNEL, NOT the driver.
99% of the kernel is drivers. And while I'm not an expert, it seems likely that your bug is in the Intel KMS driver, that being the bit responsible for doing mode switching and framebuffer these days... > Also, come to think of it, I didn't find the BUG, it found me! :) > > Speaking of drama, don't you think that for a KERNEL to mess up the return > from > graphics, so badly and inexcusably as of 3.x and end of 2011, > that's pretty dramatic (and sad)? Unfortunate, yes, but hey - bugs happen, and I doubt there's a single non-trivial piece of software that doesn't have hundreds of them. And driver bugs tend to be especially obscure, to the point where you might be the only person on the planet with the right combination of hardware to trigger it. Simon.
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