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Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files



> This should only affect custom kernel packages.  However, if you have
> more than 1 GB RAM in this system, please test with the extra kernel
> parameter 'mem=1G'.

My system has only 768 MB RAM.

> Did you ever experience that bug (failure to suspend) in Linux 2.6.32?

No, suspend works fine, and always did, both with 2.6.32-30 and
2.6.32-31.

> Does the current bug disappear if you disable Kernel Mode Setting
> (rename the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf to i915-kms.conf.disabled
> and reboot)?

I updated to 2.6.32-31 again and did as you said, but without success.
Right after boot-up, the mouse pointer was invisible (until doing the
suspend-trick), and the systems hangs when trying to play any kind of
video.

I also used this chance to go through the BugReport-Process again to
generate usable Package-specific info for my system. However, apart from
the actual kernel log everything was the same, especially there was no
difference in the loaded modules or the likes (only slightly different
sizes on some modules, as would be expected). So I just attached the
kernel log, starting from boot up. Hope this helps.

> What do you mean when you say 'no 3D acceleration'?  The i855 GPU
> certainly has some 3D functionality.  Is it disabled in some way, or are
> you just not using it?

Actually, I do not know whether I have _no_ 3D acceleration or whether
the 3D acceleration is just horribly bad. Before switching to Debian 6
merely two weeks ago, I was running Ubuntu 8.04 (which is now no longer
supported), with which I could use composition desktop effects and play
Quake 3 fluently. Now I can not even activate composition effects (not
much of a loss...), and Quake 1 'runs' at approximately one frame every
other second (Fitzquake engine). (Still better than newer versions of
Ubuntu, which wouldn't even boot on my machine any more.)

So, as far as I can tell, 3D acceleration is disabled by default, and I
haven't looked into how to activate it yet (and do not have much hope in
succeeding to do so, after everything I've read so far).

Please let me know if I can try anything else with kernel version
2.6.32-31; otherwise I'd like to switch back to 2.6.32-30, soon. ;-)

Regards,
Tobias

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