Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 05:09 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
> Just downloaded the latest nightly live CD and installed.
> 
> After reboot computer freezes at splash screen.

This might be plymouth; see if hitting SysRq+Alt+k kills the splash
screen and brings up X.

> 
> Reinstalled from a previous dialy Live CD (about a week old) and ran sudo 
> apt-get-update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> Rebooted, screen freeze again at Ubuntu splash screen.
> 
> Rebooted and reverted to previous kernal and was able to log in just fine.
> 
> On a related note....
> 
> Upgrding kernel-headers package to the latest causes apt/dpkg to lock up 
> while unpackaing.
> 
> That took a lot of playing with to work around.
> 
> Workaround for now is to remain with older Kernel version 2.6.32-15
> 
> 
> Hardware:
> 
> ASUS Laptop
> Intel Core i5-430M CPU
> 4GB of DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
> 500GB Hard Drive 
> NVidia GT325M Graphics Engine with 1GB DDR3 Dedicated VRAM (also Intel 
> Onboard GMA and sound).

Ah!  Someone's got some switchable graphics.  That's not going to be as
well-tested as other setups, so you might run into problems others
aren't seeing.

If you feel like some additional testing, the NouveauEvaluation wiki
page[1] has instructions for testing more recent upstream versions of
Nouveau.  There's at least one commit in there relevant to switchable
graphics.

Regardless of whether you test the newer nouveau, it would be useful if
you could file a bug on launchpad.  “ubuntu-bug xorg” will attach a
bunch of useful information.


[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation#upstreamtesting

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