retitle 607194 radeon: random general protection faults when RV620 firmware not installed found 607194 linux-2.6/2.6.32-29 # probably affects wheezy, too tags 607194 - squeeze reassign 610851 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-30 merge 610851 607194 quit
Hi Andries, Bergen A van wrote: > In Squeeze all non-free firmware is removed out of the kernel. > So I decided to run Squeeze whithout non-free firmware. > Then the bug occurs randomly at startup. > I have long struggled with the problem and tried everything. > > At one point I decided to solve: > > [ 19.381024] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV620_pfp.bin" > > by installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package. > > This has solved the problem! Do not know why. > So it seems that Squeeze cannot be run on HP Pavilion dv2 whitout non-free > firmware. I see. This sounds like <http://bugs.debian.org/610851> (oopses reminiscent of memory corruption after modesetting without radeon microcode installed). Maybe the ACPI errors were a red herring. Please attach "dmesg" output from a boot with the non-free firmware installed, for comparison with the log already sent. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
