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my debian system *flickers*



(please cc me for I'm unsuscribed)
 
Since I have upgraded my system, it *flickers*.
The boot happens normally (the GRUB file mentions linux 2.6.7-1-386),
the ``come up" seems to well happen also. But when I come to the GNOME screen,
this one lasts only for an instant (the _login_ window doesn't display), the screen passes
(briefly) to black, then it displays the text screen (briefly also), then the screen repasses
to black, then we restart to the GNOME screen.
This sequence happens 5 times, then a screen displays:
 
"The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last"
"90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will      "
wait for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.                    "
 
                                              "<Ok>"
 
the message <Ok> being displayed in red. The system makes 2 errors:
it happens 5 flickers rather than 6, and to wait is useless. Validing makes
return to the text screen (which gives me a login. Hopefully I may retake
the hand) for about 2 minutes, after which there is the return of the flickering
(but 7 times, this time). I precise my system is set on _stable_.
 
A lsmod gives:
module                             Size                         Used by
[...]
radeon                             115236                       0
[...]
 
A hwinfo gives:
----- kernel log -----
[...]
<6>agpgart: Found an AGP compliant device at 0000:00:00.0
<6>agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
<6>agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
<6>agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
<6>apm BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
<5>apm: overridden by ACPI
[repeated many times]
[...]
========= end debug info =========
[...]
24: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[no line "Module Alias :"]
[...]
 
If I run startx, I have a blue and gray logo, with the Debian logo embedded in
black, which displays not less than 3 seconds ! The flickering restarts
nevertheless. And there is a message :
"AUDIT: Fri Oct 31 10:16:21 2008 4552 X: client 4 rejected"
"waiting for X server to shut down"
 
Anyone has an idea ?
 
Heartly yours,
J. Blanc


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