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Device register violation

Device register violation

Posted Oct 13, 2008 21:29 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: The 2.6.27 kernel is out by iabervon
Parent article: The 2.6.27 kernel is out

I see what might be a similar sort of problem on my "nv" laptop: running "lshw" as superuser clobbers the display device registers. I have to reboot to get back control of the display.


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