Bug#939262: firmware-iwlwifi: Consider update to newest version (20190815)

See my report in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934781#30 On my Dell Precision M6400 laptop, the newer iwlwifi 20190815 firmware only partly fixes the problem.  The Wi-Fi no longer hangs (great!), but Microcode SW errors still occur in periods of high throughput. -- System

Bug#934781: firmware-iwlwifi: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected

As an experiment, I downloaded the tarball from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tag/?h=20190815 (as recommended in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939262 ), and manually copied its intel/* and iwlwifi-* files into /lib/firmware

Bug#939441: firmware-iwlwifi: Microcode SW error detected / Error sending REPLY_ADD_STA: time out after 2000ms

Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 20190717-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream During heavy Wi-Fi use (rsync), every few seconds (see first kern.log extract): Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x200. And once: Error sending REPLY_ADD_STA: time out after 2000ms. followed by

Bug#676299: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: [RV 740] (EE) radeon_setup_kernel_mem failed

I applied the patches described at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D43448 to the source packages libdrm 2.4.33-1, mesa 8.0.3-1 and xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.14.4-4. The X server now starts successfully and the on-screen font rendering corruptions are gone. It appears that this is a

Bug#676299: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: [RV 740] (EE) radeon_setup_kernel_mem failed

Here are the diffs of the patches I applied. I don't pretend to understand why they worked, but the comment that introduced them is extensive: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43448#c9 In libdrm: diff --git a/radeon/radeon_surface.c b/radeon/radeon_surface.c index 6303c47..26ba580

Bug#676299: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: [RV 740] (EE) radeon_setup_kernel_mem failed

on radeon_setup_kernel_mem() but then the entire system hung when X was started, and I had to reboot by disconnecting power and removing the battery. For the time being I am limping along on 1:6.14.3-2 and switching virtual desktops back and forth to erase the mangled text artifact that appears often. Yours, Andrew

Bug#623138: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Blank screen in X (no crash) after upgrading from Lenny to Wheezy, Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.14.902-1 Severity: important After upgrading my Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P laptop from Lenny to Squeeze, the X screen (vt7) is always blank after booting. Switching virtual terminals works, and everything else appears to work fine (this bug report is

Bug#336178: bcm5700-source: Compile fails for kernel 2.6.14 (struct pci_dev slot_name)

Package: bcm5700-source Version: 8.1.55-2 Severity: important Tags: patch The file modules/bcm5700/src/b57um.c contains a reference to the 'slot_name' element of struct dev_pci, which is now gone in kernel 2.6.14. Patch (compiles but not tested): Replace line 2478 in b57um.c: