Bug#604613: Status of this bug?
No go. I don't know how to tell if it has been updated since early March, but the 3.2 kernel does exactly
the same thing now that it did then. It looks like it is booting ok, but when it gets to loading the desktop
it freezes with a black screen. Apparently it runs into some sort of problem starting X on this system.
Admittedly, this is a marginal system. It's a laptop with the VIA P4M800 Pro integrated chipset. The
video system uses the OpenChrome drivers, which actually work more reliably than the Windows drivers.
But it is still buggy. Since I have no idea how to make it work, I have uninstalled the backported kernel,
and tried to uninstall the supporting packages but they seem to have disappeared. Both initramfs and
linux-base had to be upgraded to backports for the 3.2 kernel, but now I cannot find the upgraded
versions to uninstall them. Why would they turn invisible? At least the standard kernel is able to boot
and the system is usable.
For now I have installed a different wifi card I found on eBay with a Realtek chipset. This does work, so
the system is otherwise functional. It's just the ath5k driver that is broken. The performance of this other
card is noticeably less, though, so I am definitely watching and waiting for this driver to be fixed in the
stable kernel for Squeeze.
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