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Bug#683167: Attempting to start X with intel driver hangs system



On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 21:29 +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Does the squeeze 2.6.32.y kernel reproduce the same trouble?  (It should run
> > fine on a wheezy/sid system.)  Could you retrieve full "dmesg" output
> > from the 3.2.y failure?
> 
> 2.6.32 has never heard of this GPU, so the i915 module doesn't
> initialize. The X server exits immediately, saying no device was
> found, but doesn't crash. The kernel panics on trying to reboot, but
> the stack trace shows a bunch of EFI-related functions, so it's
> probably unrelated.
[...]

That's possibly the same bug as #626022.  I have seen the same problem
on one of my own systems and investigated a little way, but didn't reach
a conclusion yet.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed.
                                                         - Carolyn Scheppner

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