Bug#659110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Hibernate restore/thawing causes blank sscreen and unresponsive keyboard

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2012-02-08 15:04 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Rikard Mustajärvi <rmsystematicfailure@gmail.com> (08/02/2012):
>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>> Version: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1
>> Severity: normal
>
> Sven, what about a new snapshot, btw?

I can prepare one if you like, but the commits in upstream's master
branch since the current snapshot do not seem particularly important to
me.  Also, I'm positive that none of them has any relevance wrt this
problem.

>> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45752 for original bug
>> report where Ben Skeggs believes the issue is fixed upstream.
>
> If you want to try it right now, here's a quick walkthrough:
>   sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>   debcheckout xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>   cd xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>   git remote add upstream git://anongit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau
>   git fetch upstream
>   git merge upstream/master
>   dch --local +quicktest "Merge from upstream master."
>   debuild -b
>   sudo debi --upgrade

This is not going to help, upgrading the kernel is necessary.

Cheers,
       Sven