On Sunday 10 December 2006 12:28, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 10 December 2006 03:36, Frans Pop wrote: > > Still "crashes" in the same way. The jump when I move the mouse for > > the first time is _a lot_ bigger. Still completely freezes after that > > and still only a grey screen with a pointer. > > Hmm. Actually, this issue seems unrelated to the touchpad patches. g-i > freezes in the same way on my laptop if I try a daily netinst. > > I've narrowed it down to the change from kernel 2.6.17 to 2.6.18. > I guess I'll have to do a git-bisect to find the patch that broke > vesafb or mouse handling for my laptop. Looks like I'm in luck. I've compiled a custom kernel using latest upstream stable kernel release (2.6.18.5) and g-i booted normally with that. The Debian kernel team is preparing to upload that version, so hopefully this will be resolved some time next week. Cheers, FJP
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