On 64-bit Gentoo, with X.Org 7.4 (XServer 1.5.3) and kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27, running on Catalyst 8.11 (ati-drivers-8.552-r2) results in data corruption that sometimes manifests in segfaulting application. emerging not-so-small applications (mozilla-thunderbird) has gcc, as (assembler) and python segfault at times. That is, if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, broken machine code can be produced without you ever knowing, fscking up your whole system.
Everything went stable again after reverting back to xf86-video-radeonhd.
So I guess I can say "you have been warned" here. Do thorough tests to see if you're affected by this if you want to use Catalyst 8.11 since this is serious.
Everything went stable again after reverting back to xf86-video-radeonhd.
So I guess I can say "you have been warned" here. Do thorough tests to see if you're affected by this if you want to use Catalyst 8.11 since this is serious.
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