Package: firmware-linux Version: 0.16? Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
As of 2.6.29 kernels, this (nonfree?) code is broken out of the kernel's driver and loaded from this package. The mga driver for Matrox g200 mila card worked before when this separate firmware was not necessary. Now, any attempt to start a 3d-accelerated app (i.e. games like chromium or ppracer) will freeze the entire system. Only logged error will be x existed suddenly or such. The motherboard has a via chipset. This type of crash out can be related to IDE-1 problems, clicking disks, and such and possibly the firmware is hitting the IDE-1 IRQ or trying wayward accesses. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-davidb (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
