Bug#578912: [squeeze] [R520] soft lockups with radeon KMS

[Zsolt Rizsanyi <rizsanyi@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hi Jonathan,

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zsolt Rizsanyi wrote:
> > I still have the system, but I have upgraded it to a testing/unstable mix
> > and I'm currently running the 3.2 kernel.
> >
> > I'm not sure if it would be reasonable to test with 2.6.32 kernel from
> > squeeze on a wheezy system.
>
> Yes, it is reasonable to do so, and it is supposed to work.
>
> On the other hand, it is possible that the wheezy/sid userspace is able to
> avoid trouble somehow.  So if you have time to try 2.6.32-21 from
> http://snapshot.debian.org, too, to confirm you can still reproduce
> the problem, that would be most useful.

Unfortunately it turns out that the radeon drivers from wheezy could
not initialize with 2.6.32-21. X froze taking with it the display. The
underlying system was functional.

Regards,
Zsolt