Bug#551840: I have no problems with this card
I have an old Compaq laptop with this card: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. I did a fresh Squeeze install about a couple of months ago.
I experienced some problems with the radeon driver currently in squeeze (but I never got crashes), but upon switching to kernel 2.6.33+KMS everything went away. Please try this:
Get the newer radeon driver from sid (you'll need a
newer kernel as well, either 2.6.32-10 from sid or 2.6.33 from
experimental). For this you will need to enable Kernel modesetting. add
radeon to /etc/modules and put options radeon modeset=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf (you'll probably need to create the file).
(NOTE: if not installed already, get libdrm-radeon1, firmware-linux-nonfree and relevant mesa packages).
Report back!
Andres
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