Greetings, A bug has been found that only affects some of the hardware supported by xserver-xorg-video-geode and causes a hardware freeze during X launch, because of a hard-coded value in the DDC probing code. It only affects GX2 variants of the Geode; LX variants are not affected.
Upstream is aware of the issue and has a fix in mind, but currently little time to produce it and is asking until when can Debian allow a freeze exception for Lenny. Two possible fixes for this issue: 1) Release a patched GEODE 2.10.0 package e.g. debian/patches usage produced using only that GIT commit, as soon as it's available. 2) Wait until the GEODE 2.12.0 including that fix is released (mid-September, according to upstream milestone) and package that for Lenny. Awaiting RM team's verdict on how to best proceed. Best Regards, -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi