On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:04 -0500, Andrew Miskell wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-9 > Severity: normal > > > It appears the fix for bug #508108 has been regressed. > > It appears that CONFIG_FB_XVR500 and CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 are no longer set in > newer kernels than the kernel shipped with Lenny > (linux-image-2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp). This causes workstations to because > unresponsive at the console when the kernel attempts > to handoff the console output to the framebuffer in newer versions of the > kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-3-sparc64-smp). [...]
These drivers were originally enabled on the 'lenny' branch but this change was not made on the 'trunk' (see the version graph for this bug). In any case, this will be fixed in the next version in unstable, and then in 'squeeze'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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