On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > Thanks for your quick answer,… but (sounds like a pouting little boy, I > know): > Sorry, but I cannot file a bug report against, say, nvidia-glx, because > it is most likely not the cause.
Sure it is.
> The problem is far more likely kernel
> 3.x- and/or gcc-related, and I need somebody who knows more intimate
> workings of debian 7 before I can file a bug report to the correct
> topic/person:
But you just rejected the advice of one such person. Do you want advice
or not?
> –– newer BIOS for my machine does not exist. Current/last is from
> 2009. And, like I wrote, it works perfectly with debian 6 (kernel 2.6)
> or winXP/win7. *without* *any* problems. And I don't exactly care if
> APM/ACPI standards have changed in the meantime. Debian used to be
> backward-compatible to even twenty-years-old hardware and their specs.
I don't believe this was ever true, and it should not be a high priority
for us.
[...]
> –– with kernel *2.6* on debian 6, this does not happen, while I use
> exactly the same settings, libraries, modules, and X modules (well, libs
> with a smaller sub-version number). With debian 6 using a 3.x kernel,
> *the same* happens as I described here for debian 7.
[...]
You are also using a new version of the nvidia driver with this
kernel...
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
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