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On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 06:08 -0700, Nicholas Holley wrote:
> This is possibly the same bug as is listed in the nouveau bug tracker at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27501
> 
> The symptoms in post number one are very similar to mine down.
> 
> It appears this was fixed in Ubuntu kernel 2.6.32-21.31
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/546393/comments/119
> and later modifications in 2.6.35-22.33
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/546393/comments/132
> 
> I'm guessing these patches are in the (very) distant future for Debian
> but during the Squeeze install, there should be a script that detects
> the affected hardware and reverts to the nv driver or takes other
> steps to prevent a failed boot.

We're sharing DRM driver fixes for 2.6.33[*] with Ubuntu and should pick
this up shortly.  Sorry we haven't applied it yet.

* Yes, our base kernel version for 'squeeze' is 2.6.32, but we updated
the whole of the DRM system to 2.6.33.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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