Bug#651532: System crashes (kernel oops) when loading ATI firmware

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

El 2011-12-12 a las 11:49 -0600, Jonathan Nieder escribió:

> Camaleón wrote:
> 
> > The user has provided the following information:
> >
> > - The crash is still reproducible with Debian's stock kernel 3.1 with no
> > VirtualBox and wl modules loaded.
> >
> > - The crash is also happening with Debian's experimental kernel 
> > (3.2-rc4). I'm attaching the full syslog and a snapshot for the crash 
> > (what follows is a small snippet for the kernel crash):
> >
> > Dec 11 21:00:55 linux kernel: [   39.546036] upowerd: Corrupted page table at address b77df424
> [...]
> 
> Hmm, this time there are no messages about the Radeon CP.  Does
> uninstalling the radeon firmware (or disabling the radeon driver some
> other way) still avoid trouble?

The user tried the latest kernel (3.2-rc4) with the firmware blob 
package installed to enable 3D acceleration. Do you want he tries again 
this kernel with no firmware package at all?

-- 
Camaleón