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There are additional problems I experience:
I guess, this is related to the video/radeon/KMS. This is why:
mplayer/totem pauses every 20 sec while playing most(?) of avi videos full screen.
With the older/unupdated 2.6.31-14 version I could use w3m in the vt with all cyrillic fonts and images shown wonderfully.
The update breaks now.
I had a very similar problem when I was testing KMS on a custom kernel.
I compiled 2.6.32-rc5 kernel. I had crashes while some garbage was spewn to the logs.
All similar symptoms
I will try to rollback to the state before the upgrade