Bug#699138: general: Tor, opera, chrom(ium), others lock up gnome on Acer 722. Can not access other CLI terminals.

[Tim Graham <autofyrsto@gmail.com>]

Thank you for the speedy reply.

Your assumption was correct. I was using 3.2.35-2.

I tried http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/linux-image-3.2.0-4.drm-486_3.2.35-3~jcristau.1_i386.deb first.
Then I tried http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/linux-image-3.2.0-4.drm-amd64_3.2.34-1~jcristau.1_amd64.deb.

Neither of these affected my situation, but I will be on the lookout for future kernel upgrades.

Cheers,

~Tim G.

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.35-2

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 20:00 -0500, Tim G. wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I have recently installed Debian Wheezy on an Acer AspireOne 722. This hardware
> required installing firmware-linux-nonfree to get full gnome3 functionality.

Yes, this is required by AMD GPUs.

> Wheezy locks up frequently on this machine. The lock-up is complete. Neither
> keys nor touchpad work. I can not ctrl-alt-F1 to a terminal. I must hold down
> the power button to resart the machine.

[...]

This is presumably a kernel bug.  I'm going to assume you're using the
current version in testing/unstable, which is 3.2.35-2.

Could you try the test packages referred to from
<http://bugs.debian.org/687442#131>?  I can't promise they will make any
difference but they might.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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