On 2026-06-12 11:27:10 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The 7.0.12 kernel is unusable (except via SSH) due to a NULL pointer > dereference in nouveau. The first one: [...]
> I get a black screen. ... with a small "_" cursor at the top-left. The initrd is much smaller than the one of the 7.0.10 kernel (which is still working fine): -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182262716 2026-06-01 16:55:19 initrd.img-7.0.10+deb14-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76734406 2026-06-12 11:14:18 initrd.img-7.0.12+deb14-amd64 This may be due to the new version of firmware-nonfree. Before (used with the 7.0.10 kernel): ii firmware-intel-graphics 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for Intel iGPUs and IPUs ii firmware-intel-misc 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for miscellaneous Intel devices and chips ii firmware-mediatek 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for MediaTek and Ralink chips for networking, SoCs and media ii firmware-misc-nonfree 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel ii firmware-nvidia-graphics 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for Nvidia GPU chips ii firmware-realtek 20260410-1 all Binary firmware for Realtek network and audio chips Now (used with the 7.0.12 kernel): ii firmware-misc-nonfree 20260519-1 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel ii firmware-realtek 20260519-1 all Binary firmware for Realtek network and audio chips since firmware-nvidia-graphics, firmware-intel-graphics, firmware-intel-misc, firmware-mediatek have been changed from "Recommends:" to "Suggests:". If this is an issue just to be able to run Xorg, this should be reverted. If this is the cause, note that I have another machine, also with an Nvidia graphics card, but just with firmware-linux-free, and everything is fine (however, on this other machine, I use the proprietary Nvidia drivers instead of nouveau due to an old bug that has never been fixed, and the initrd size is also reasonable: 79278149, i.e. similar to the initrd.img-7.0.12+deb14-amd64 one mentioned above). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
