several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-27 Thread René Kuligowski
concerning: older AMD64 computers + 3.x kernel, X11 + native NVidia drivers + FVWM or WMII, and some other SIGSEGV'ing apps Good morning, the following case made me put debian 7.3 aside and keep using debian 6.0.7: I am using an older AMD64 AthlonXP Core 2 3800+, accompa

Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread René Kuligowski
. Regards, rekuli On 28.12.2013 07:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Rene! On 12/28/2013 08:40 AM, René Kuligowski wrote: concerning: older AMD64 computers + 3.x kernel, X11 + native NVidia drivers + FVWM or WMII, and some other SIGSEGV'ing app

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread René Kuligowski
On 28.12.2013 19:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You can still file the bug report against a particular package. If it turns out to be assigned to the wrong package, we can still change that afterwards at any time. Right, I just wanted to spare us from the trouble by getting one or the o

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread René Kuligowski
Original Message Subject:Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:57:50 -0100 From: René Kuligowski To: Ben Hutchings On 28.12.2013 23:46, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote

Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread René Kuligowski
OK, this is not fun when people just get pissed because they don't read –– or don't want to read –– what a person writes, and answer with thoughtless or arrogant statements. I didn't post this in debian-devel out of boredom; I wrote to you because it didn't seem to fit anywhere else. I thank

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread René Kuligowski
On 29.12.2013 01:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: This is a common fallacy: Just because a piece of hardware is working properly on Windows doesn't mean anything is adherent to the specifications. The reason why your hardware is running on Windows without any problems is that the manufactu