Is Canonical against Kubuntu (2): the bug tracking disaster

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 19 April 2009, Nils Kassube wrote:
>Anton wrote:
>> BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE WAY BUGS ARE CONSIDERED!
>
>Why do you shout at me? I didn't create your problem.
>
>> I know bug hunting is no fun... I did it myself,
>> but the proble here is that bugs are simply ignored.
>>
>> Example 1:
>> 2008.05.04 BUG https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/233974 (sound does not
>> work) 2008.10.24  * 5 months later * I get the message:
>
>Well, waiting for 5 months for someone to look at the bug is rather
>long. I just had a look at your bug report and it seems a bit vague to
>me. From what you wrote above you are familiar with bug hunting. Then
>why did you not mention what sound hardware you have? That would be the
>minimum information for a bug about a sound problem. And why did you
>not provide the output of "lspci -vvnn" after being asked to do so?
>
>BTW: I don't think that bug is Kubuntu specific because the nvidia
>driver is used by other desktops as well.

yes, and nvidia can do odd things to your system, so odd that unless they 
setup a better system of bug reporting than that information crippling forum 
they use, there will likely be a hard, killing frost in hell before I load 
another copy of it.

You see, I have a milling machine computer, running emc2 on kubuntu-6.06 LTS.  
The nvidia driver locks the irq's for many milliseconds at a time and wrecks 
parts, usually by the time its reached the middle of the first cut.  The nv 
driver also does this to a lessor extent, while the same card using the vesa 
driver works quite well. That is not a million color demanding job by any 
means. 16 will do nicely.

I have had nvidia cards in my main machine several times.  And several times I 
have had LSN0 of the boot drive wiped clean (as in dd dumping all 00h, forcing 
a complete reinstall, then a recovery (I use amanda, built from the tarballs).  
Such as that has never happened since I switched the brand name of the chips 
on the card to ATI.  Performance is obviously slower but for my use here, 
adequate.  And its improving.  Folks like Alex Deutcher are steadily writing 
code based on the specs ATI/AMD gave them over the last year.  They will have 
working 3d for the r600-r700 based cards shortly.  alpha, maybe beta code is 
out there now.

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