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Bug#566376: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: X unconditionally hangs up on bootup



On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 12:42 +0300, Alexander Myodov wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> None of the linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 packages, since they
> reached unstable, ever booted successfully on my laptop. X system
> darkens the screen and hangs the computer completely (i.e. cannot even
> switch to the console via Ctrl-Alt-F1), as soon as the booting process
> reaches KDM; Alt-SysRq-B works though.
[...]

Does this machine have 4 GB RAM (or more)?  If you add 'mem=3500M' to
the kernel command line, does this avoid the problem?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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