Comment 28 for bug 544741
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| Arturas K (arturas-k) wrote Re: [Bug 544741] Re: [X700] KMS, amd64: reboot or freeze while trying to launch system > preferences > appearance | #28 |
On 2010.03.26 07:15, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Okay the panic message shows this is a fault in the kernel drm code, so
> I'll forward this to the kernel team. From your backtrace (thanks for
> including a screen capture!) it seems to have to do with the drm's edid
> code. EDID is data from your laptop monitor which communicates its
> resolution and refresh rate capabilities, so perhaps something in how
> your laptop monitor's EDID is structured is causing the kernel some
> confusion.
crash while booting as you said might be related to EDID. this is most
likely one more bug - because I see no relation to crashing while
launching some app to that...