Bug#482692: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Machine crashes on startx with RV250 (Mobility FireGL 9000 rev 02)

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

kai@unclear.de wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.8.1~git20080521.04500c84-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> After a dist-upgrade for testing, starting the X server reliably crashes the entire machine. The display backlight turns off and the machine does not respond to a ping from the network.
> Installing the latest package from the experimental branch did not fix this problem.
>   

Does it help if you had any of the following option to the Device
section of your xorg.conf?
    Option "AGPMode" "4"
    Option "AGPMode" "1"
    Option "BusType" "PCI"
    Option "DRI"   "False"


> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M7 LW)"
> 	Driver		"radeon"
> 	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
> 	Option		"DynamicClocks"	"on"
> 	Option		"AGPMode" "8"
> 	Option 		"AGPFastWrite" "on"
> 	Option 		"EnablePageFlip" "on" 
> 	VideoRam        65536
> EndSection
>   

You might want to comment out AGPFastWrite and EnablePageFlip for now.

Brice