Comment 10 for bug 1174429

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Johnny Arthur (ubuntu-hwbqs69) wrote :

Hallo,
probably i am totally wrong here, but i had some unexpected behaviour when installing these packages from proposed.

Background:
i am suffering from Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1169984, ie. there was no hdmi output available. For this reason i installed the new proposed kernel in proposed, that should fix it. I also installed the proposed alsa-packages, as i was not sure, whether they would be necessary too.
HDMI worked then as expected, but after some time - always listening to internet radio - the x-window-system froze: The mouse did no longer respond nor most of the keyboard commands. The internet radio however continued playing. The only things i could do in this state were:
- terminate the X-Server using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then logging in again.
- switching to console and back (logging into my user account in the text console even brought the internet radio back!)
This happened to me several times.
Today i reinstalled the "old" packages manually and it did not happen again (for now).
There was absolutely nothing relevant in syslog, kern.log and Xorg.0.log.

Hope, it's not too confusing... Once again, probably the failures were just a coincidence and not really related to those updates. But how can we know? Maybe the combination of HDMI-Output with the newest proposed kernel and these new alsa-lib's should be tested by other users? I listened to internet radio (http://gffstream.ic.llnwd.net/stream/gffstream_w13b) using vlc.