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[Mark Ellse <markellse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Done the testing suggested by Geir. All done on Lucid, but I guess the same is true for Karmic.
2.6.30-freezetest1 works
2.6.30-freezetest9 freezes
2.6.30-freezetest8 works

For those who wish to test, here is what to do.
When your machine is booting, press ESC a single time early during bootup to get the GRUB boot menu. (When to press ESC needs a bit of experiment because both Karmic and Lucid are designed to boot fast, not to spend time waiting for key presses.)
When you get the boot menue, choose recovery mode and select a shell with networking
Download files from shell. I used:

'wget http://www.hvante.info/845Gfreeze'

This downloads an index file with the file names on there.

Then, for each file, download them. Here is an example of one.

'wget www.kvante.info/845Gfreeze/linux-
image-2.6.30-freezetest1_git03347e2~gomyhr_i386.deb'

You have to do each file individually; wildcards are not allowed with
http downloads.

Then:

`dpkg -i linux-image*.deb`.

I got some funny messages, which didn't seem to matter. 
(Hmm. There is a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.30........
However, I can not read it: No such file or directory
Therefore I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.30......) These funny messages didn't seem to matter.

Then boot your computer and choose which kernel to test in the Grub boot
menu - see Geir's instructions above. (Remember, you need to get the
Grub boot menu by pressing ESC early during the bootup as above.)

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