On Saturday 11 April 2009 04:10:25 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:21 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > 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. > > Sorry about this. No-one has previously reported the results of the > patch to separate Matrox firmware so it may not have been tested before > it was included in the 2.6.29 package. > Happens to the best of us.
I do not know whether this info is of help but this is from Xorg.0.log: drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x26 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2a (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2e (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x32 > > 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. > > If you have another computer on the local network, can you try enabling > netconsole and capturing kernel messages up to the crash? Unfortunately, I do not have this capability > What happens if you uninstall the firmware? The result should be a > fallback to software rendering. This is what happens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
