See my report in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934781#30
On my Dell Precision M6400 laptop, the newer iwlwifi 20190815 firmware
only partly fixes the problem. The Wi-Fi no longer hangs (great!), but
Microcode SW errors still occur in periods of high throughput.
-- System
As an experiment, I downloaded the tarball from
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tag/?h=20190815
(as recommended in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939262 ), and manually
copied its intel/* and iwlwifi-* files into /lib/firmware (over
Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20190717-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
During heavy Wi-Fi use (rsync), every few seconds (see first kern.log
extract):
Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x200.
And once:
Error sending REPLY_ADD_STA: time out after 2000ms.
followed by an
Here are the diffs of the patches I applied. I don't pretend to
understand why they worked, but the comment that introduced them is
extensive: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43448#c9
In libdrm:
diff --git a/radeon/radeon_surface.c b/radeon/radeon_surface.c
index 6303c47..26ba580 10
I applied the patches described at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D43448 to the source
packages libdrm 2.4.33-1, mesa 8.0.3-1 and xserver-xorg-video-ati
6.14.4-4. The X server now starts successfully and the on-screen font
rendering corruptions are gone.
It appears that this is a w
radeon_setup_kernel_mem() but then the entire system hung when X
was started, and I had to reboot by disconnecting power and removing the
battery.
For the time being I am limping along on 1:6.14.3-2 and switching virtual
desktops back and forth to erase the mangled text artifact that appears often.
Yours,
Andrew
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.14.902-1
Severity: important
After upgrading my Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P laptop from Lenny to Squeeze, the X
screen (vt7) is always blank after booting.
Switching virtual terminals works, and everything else appears to work fine
(this bug report is be
Package: bcm5700-source
Version: 8.1.55-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The file modules/bcm5700/src/b57um.c contains a reference to the
'slot_name' element of struct dev_pci, which is now gone in kernel
2.6.14.
Patch (compiles but not tested):
Replace line 2478 in b57um.c:
strcpy(info.bus
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