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Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg



On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even
> > without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg. I'm now using an
> > installed version of stable and that has no crashes, so it seems to be
> > something about how the latest kernel interacts with my system. There
> > are no other linux-images around to try so perhaps I shall have to
> > compile a kernel myself.
> 
> I'm no expert, but this sounds like a KMS issue to me.  You might try
> http://snapshot.debian.org to recover an older stock kernel package,
> such as linux-image-2.6.32-3-686.

... or just disable KMS (and yes it sounds like a KMS issue). You can
find details on [1].

Good luck

    Wolodja

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Disabling
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