[ltp] ! (Re: New ATI Driver) - Mixed luck (words of caution)

Jan Girlich linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:18:13 +0100


D. Sen wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Thanks. I have a 2.6.13 kernel built with realtime preemption and its 
> totally stable. Is this a bug with the 2.6.14 kernel then?

I don't know. When preemption was new it was known to cause such crashes 
because some drivers were somehow not compliant. So you also may say 
it's a problem with the driver, but at least deactivating preemption 
helped me around all of these problems.

Bye
Jan