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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 00:37:45 +0400
Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> We're coming closer to the stable-0.61 Grimoire release, so here's some
> middle-work, that helps us to test 0.60 -> 0.61 upgrade process.
> 
> This release has a lot of updates (since it's based on stable-rc 0.61
> Grimoire, which was renewed and cut a week ago) as well as Kernel update
> to 3.0.31.
> 
> The most visible changes:
> 
> * GCC 4.6.3
> * Kernel 3.0.31 (latest LTS)

<snip>

Thanks for working on the new stable release.

But we might want to consider using the mainline kernel (3.4-rc7 at the
moment).
Otherwise it might render the box of nouveau users unusable unless "nomodeset"
is passed to the kernel at boot, effectively disabling kernel modesetting.

Check the following url for more info:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802751

It's not a redhat bug, as far as I know every distro suffers from the same 
bug.
I've hit it on a box I've built recently which contained a nvidia gtx 550.

Not sure if other cards are affected.

Just a heads up,
Arjan Bouter

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