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I'm having a problem with my Dell Inspiron 1564,

I am getting this error:

problem Kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt drm_kms_helper:: panic occurred, switching back to text console

I've found that it is probably due to the Broadcomm STA wireless driver.

But I am not sure how to solve the issue, does anyone know what I should do/try ?

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    this has nothing to do with wireless driver. drm_kms_helper is part of the Linux GPU DRM driver. so apparently it has something to with your GPU. Nvidia, AMD ? proprietary or open source driver? kernel version? more info is needed here.
    – sgx1
    Jan 30, 2014 at 6:32
  • This sounds an awful lot like this bug: bugs.archlinux.org/task/36539 Which kernel version are you running?
    – Donarsson
    Jan 30, 2014 at 13:22
  • [enter link description here][1] [1]: askubuntu.com/questions/471012/… I think you should take a look at this.. Jun 13, 2014 at 2:30
  • same problem here askubuntu.com/questions/471012/… Sep 21, 2014 at 8:30
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    This seems like using an older kernel with a more modern KMS setting display driver. My suggestion would be to bring your kernel and driver closer together, such as installing a new kernel, using an older driver, or updating to a newer version of Ubuntu would will default to both. Jan 2, 2015 at 2:18

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