It results in massive amounts of this printout: radeon: The kernel rejected CS, see dmesg for more information. dmesg says: [ 824.623357] radeon 0000:01:00.0: evergreen_surface_check_2d:285 cb height 1088 invalid must be aligned with 128 [ 824.623362] radeon 0000:01:00.0: evergreen_cs_track_validate_cb:427 cb[0] invalid (0x000000df 0x000076ff 0x00090c80 0x01088468) [ 824.623364] radeon 0000:01:00.0: evergreen_packet3_check:2136 invalid cmd stream 607 [ 824.623365] [drm:radeon_cs_ib_chunk] *ERROR* Invalid command stream ! I've got the kernel from vanilla source, and mesa from package (debian unstable). Mesa 9.1-dev works fine. I've got libdrm 2.4.40+ from git (0980633afd9c7eecc0c75ef3bea4d3c6b7aa1898) installed in /usr/local/lib.
xf86-video-ati 7.0.0 enables 2D tiling by default and hence requires mesa 9.x. You either need mesa 9.x, or you have to disable 2D tiling: Option "ColorTiling2D" "False" in the device section of your xorg.conf
Oh, in that case I guess normal debian users are safe from this problem, because in 6.14.4 it is off by default. Closing as PEBKAC.
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