Bug#597520: nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-xxx: breaks serial communication

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Mon Sep 20 13:51:19 UTC 2010


On 2010-09-20 15:27, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64
> Version: 195.36.31+1+2+2.6.32-20
...
> 
> At the same time, the serial output gets corrupted and stops.
> 
> Interestingly, the problem completely disappears when I shut down X11 and
> unload nvidia.ko.
> 
> When I leave X11 running, but run my script from another virtual console, the
> above traces don't show up but serial output gets corrupted anyway.
> 
> Thanks for considering. Just tell me if I can help somehow on debugging this.

Please try to reproduce this with other Xorg drivers, e.g. nv or nouveau
or vesa.

Try the 256.53-1 driver packages, currently in experimental.


Andreas





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