On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:06:49PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 04:48, David Hampton wrote:
> > I looked through the last three months of the archives for this mailing
> > list and didn't see anything that quite matched my problem.  I get a
> > crash in the DRI code any time I try to run a GL application, while
> > everything else seems to run fine.  My hardware is a Radeon 7500 QW
> > board in a DELL  Dimension 8100.  I'm running RedHat 8.0 with XFree
> > 4.2.0 (redhat packages), although I also saw this problem with RedHat
> > 7.3.  I've attached a stack trace and my XF86config-4 file.  If anyone
> > can give me any pointers I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
> > 0x40771fbb in gl_test_os_katmai_exception_support ()
> >    from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x40771fbb in gl_test_os_katmai_exception_support ()
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is such a wonderfully expressive function name, why doesn't anybody
> read it? :/ It's the normal procedure to test for Katmai support, just
> continue.

This comes up so often (once a week?) that I think we should change the name
of the function to
gl_test_os_katmai_exception_support_SIGFPE_is_expected_just_ignore_it().
I'm actually not kidding, either. :)

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