This has always happened with all RCs, 6.8.2 was fine, didn't try 6.9 since I don't have a build. The server starts fine, but after some use it crashes the machine, which becomes unresponsive to acpi requests and ssh, so it's completely gone. I noticed this happens only with some applications opened, until now I identified firefox, thunderbird and opera. The machine is a Compal CL56, I tested the RAM and it's ok, and I never had instability issues. I have a Radeon 9700 Mobile video card, and I tried to use radeon, ati and vesa modules. My distro is Arch Linux, updated to the last version, and I'm the only one one with this problem, so I think it doesn't depend on the package. I also tried reinstalling but it doesn't solve.
Please try current xf86-video-ati CVS (plus possibly DRM CVS if you enable the DRI); there have been fixes that solved similar problems for a lot of people.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please try current xf86-video-ati CVS (plus possibly DRM CVS if you enable the > DRI); there have been fixes that solved similar problems for a lot of people. I tried CVS builds as you said, but they didn't solve the problem. I managed to find a workaround, though: the server doesn't crash if GLcore, glx and dri are disabled in xorg.conf.
Sounds like a duplicate of bug 4847 or another 'R300 card hangs with DRI enabled' bug then.
(In reply to comment #3) > Sounds like a duplicate of bug 4847 or another 'R300 card hangs with DRI > enabled' bug then. You're right, thanks. I did a quick search in the bugzilla but didn't come up with anything useful... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4847 ***
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