[Bugme-new] [Bug 41622] New: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Notebook crashes upon detecting the PCI subsystem with kernels >= 2.6.24-rc7

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Tue Aug 23 15:11:46 PDT 2011


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41622

               URL: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1181761/foc
                    us=1181777
           Summary: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Notebook crashes upon detecting
                    the PCI subsystem with kernels >= 2.6.24-rc7
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc7+
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: PCI
        AssignedTo: drivers_pci at kernel-bugs.osdl.org
        ReportedBy: rbrito at ime.usp.br
        Regression: Yes


Hi.

My mom has a notebook that is quite quirky and I have had a hard
time trying to install any Linux distribution on it.

This is a notebook that works fine with Windows Vista, but she
wants to use Linux and wipe Windows completely.  The notebook has
an nVidia C51 chipset (nForce), a "forcedeth" network card, with
a Geforce Go 6100 video card and an AMD Sempron 3400+.

After *many* trial and error sessions, I found that kernel 2.6.24 worked
with this notebook, but *anything* more recent (in particular, even Debian
stable is "too recent" for it) just made it hang right after the io
schedulers were set up.

In other words, a regression.



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