Bug#699656: general: System freezes while using multimedia via DRI [Intel 82865G chip] on kernels above 3.2.0-3-686-pae
11.02.2013 03:33, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I realise it's critical to you, but if it doesn't affect other users
then I'm afraid it's just not that high a priority. Most i865 systems
have been thrown out by now, and to be brutally honest I personally a
more concerned about supporting today's hardware properly.
You should also test with the older kernel to confirm that this is a
software and not hardware failure. You can get older package versions
from <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/>. I would guess that
you were previously using version 3.2.23-1 (please don't mix up the
package version with the ABI version in the package name).
If that older version still works then please also test the intermediate
package versions 3.2.29-1 and 3.2.30-1. This should give us a smaller
range of changes to consider.
If you have time then you could also test the package linked from
<http://bugs.debian.org/687442#131>. I don't expect this to make a
difference but they might.
Ben.
Ok. So much for the backward Debian Linux compatibility, I suppose.
What hardware user wants to use is the user's decision, and it most
certainly makes sense for that user.
"If it ain't broken - don't fix it"
That's for the hardware. For the software it should be:
"If it's broken - fix it"
But I understand developers are not interrested in fixing ALL bugs. As a
programmer - however - you should prorobly know that the old bugs tend
to bite developers in their back even after many years. Also, breaking
the old code to fix new code isn't the best practice, as one could imagine.
I already tested it with many kernels - older and newer. Both older and
newer kernels don't break anything. The ones I submitted to bugreport do.
I've already described everything in my previous messages. I would
probobly not mix ABI with package version, but this whole naming scheme
is highly confusing and - as an amateur programmer and regular user - I
don't understand it.
I don't know if that makes a difference, but I observed [DIFF]
differences between two kernel version's configs - the one that's
working and the newer one that doesn't work:
> CONFIG_FB_I810_GTF=y
> CONFIG_FB_I810_I2C=y
Thank you for your time
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