By way of follow-up, I think I should be able to use netconsole to obtain (non-visual) access to the kernel oops which this bug causes.
I should have time before the end of the year to work on it by upgrading to kernel 2.6.31 and conducting some tests. this machine is not my current laptop anymore, therefore it hasn't been receiving any attention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org