[Bug 43835] System crashes when radeon firmware blob (R520_cp.bin) is installed

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43835

--- Comment #37 from Camaleón noelamac@gmail.com 2012-01-25 10:10:06 PST --- (In reply to comment #36)

It's a GPU lockup. Unfortunately, they tend to be really hard to track down. You might try a newer ddx or mesa.

We're open to test anything, whatever... but I don't really know what kind of test to suggest to the user, I'm stuck at this point. All we know for sure is that by simply removing the firmware blob it makes the system to run stable but the user needs to have 3D acceleration, otherwise gnome-shell can't run.

How could we test a new ddx (sorry to ask but, what's that? :-?) or an udpated mesa without breaking many things?