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This happened after a hardware upgrade involving new motherboard, new
amd a10 processor. Had to switch from nvidia binary driver and
installed fglrx and amdcccle. Problem stopped when I upgraded to the
experimental fglrx, though that brought in a host of other issues.
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This happened again, with the same problem listed. Following is the trace from
syslog:
Apr 28 19:47:45 amd64 kernel: [200269.035595] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL
pointer dereference at 0008
Apr 28 19:47:45 amd64 kernel: [200269.035607] IP: [a01b1291]
Based on my meager comprehension of syslog traces, it looks to me like
this is a problem with fglrx. I found somebody at the arch forums with
the same problem, seems to be upstream with amd. I will see if rolling
back to a former kernel will work, and if that doe4sn't work I will try
the
