Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Downgrading Virtualbox to 4.3.20-r1 fixes the problem on one ~amd64 > > > machine but, of course, not the other one <sigh>. > > (not the xf86-* > File a bug at b.g.o. > what you describe has much potential to trip up many people Well, I have to concur with what I did not prune out of this thread. My recent experience with xf86* on my amd64 and the 3.18.6 kernel had me reading quite a few horror stories of others; finally I found a solution, that is more a result of "marathonic" efforts as opposed to finding the correct nuggets of information. I.E. in this area I'm willing to bet there are ample bugs and things that have been modified or fixed, but the knowledge is just not disseminated. I filed no bugs because clarity never appeared as to the exact problem(s). For example in /lib/firmware/radeon I have these relevant drivers some are lower case some are uppercase and my card requires the (V|v)erde* drivers and at least one "TAHITI" driver..... In fact the inter relationships on some kernel options are there, but are not, or are "poorly", defined. I think this is a result of the quickened turn_around speed of the kernel versions. Quality was sacrificed, imho. I found no documentation as to why. It's just a mess, imho. I could list dozens of things, but the impression I got was (dev)folks are hacking at this, but it's not cleaned up because there is little clarity for (kernel) devs or other subsequent development efforts. I sure hope I'm wrong. ymmv. James
