Bug#916720: upgrade-reports: stretch to buster upgrade graphics fail, ok with old kernel 4.9

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 22:48, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote:

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> max:
> > Package: upgrade-reports
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > upgraded to buster via apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, all worked
> well up to here.
> > Booting gave black screen.
> > Reboot with old kernel 4.9 --> all is well.
> > Set system to go into multi-user (without graphics): Same effect.
> > Thus it must be related to the framebuffer screen setting at boot,
> rather than xserver-xorg.
> > Will attach working and non-working X.org.log below
> >
> > Max
> >
> > [...]
>
> Hi Max,
>
> Could you try to see if version 4.18.0-2 of the Debian Linux kernel
> works?  You can install it from snapshot.debian.org.
>
> I have seen some reports of 4.18.0-3 being broken or causing issues with
> graphics in certain circumstances (#916510, #916134, #914967) which may
> be related to your issue.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>
>
Another amendment here:
4.18.0-2 does indeed work as expected. 4.18.0-3 does not work.
I tried this on Dell Latitude D630 and Dell Latitude E6400 notebooks.

How can this be forwarded to the kernel maintainers?

Best regards,
Max