Bug#687442: Success with linux-image-3.2.0-4.drm-amd64_3.2.35-3~jcristau.1_amd64.deb

[Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@free.fr>]

Le jeudi 07 février 2013 à 20:11 +0100, Ingo a écrit :
> I now tested Julien's kernel
> (http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/wheezy-drm34/linux-image-3.2.0-4.drm-amd64_3.2.35-3~jcristau.1_amd64.deb)
> with
> DRM/KMS subsystem backported from 3.4, thoroughly. For 12 days it ran
> absolutely smoothly without any freezes!
> 
> I did stress it in many ways, but did not observe any glitches. So this
> kernel fixes bug #692234 and merged bugs 689268, ... for me.
> 
> My hardware in short form:
> 
> Ivy Bridge i5-3570k with
> HD4000 graphics (no external cards), display connected to Display-Port
> Intel DH77EB MoBo
> 
> All standard Wheezy-kernels up to 3.2.35 exhibited regular hard freezes
> - sometimes more than once a day with power consumption some 30 watts up.
> 
> Juliens kernel for sure is an excellent alternative to using vanilla 3.4
> kernel which also does the job. If Julien's fix/patches is ported to
> Wheezy's kernel, please drop a short note here, so I can switch back to
> standard Wheezy-kernel without beeing scared for my hardware.
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 

Hi,

I don't want to talk on behalf of the kernel team, but the bug is marked
as 'pending' so it should make its way in Wheezy ;-)

Cheers,
Vincent