Bug#522956: firmware-matrox: g200-warp firmware from firmware-linux kills system on 3d-acceleration
Package: firmware-linux
Version: 0.16?
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
As of 2.6.29 kernels, this (nonfree?) code is broken out of the kernel's driver and loaded from this package.
The mga driver for Matrox g200 mila card worked before when this separate firmware was not necessary.
Now, any attempt to start a 3d-accelerated app (i.e. games like chromium or
ppracer) will freeze the entire system. Only logged error will be x existed
suddenly or such.
The motherboard has a via chipset. This type of crash out can be related to
IDE-1 problems, clicking disks, and such and possibly the firmware is
hitting the IDE-1 IRQ or trying wayward accesses.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-davidb (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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