Bug#465864: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes the computer on startup

[Alex Deucher]

2008/2/21 Jiří Paleček <jpalecek at web.de>:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:09:04 +0100, Brice Goglin
>
> <Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Jiří Paleček wrote:
>  >> Sorry, it was my fault. I was doing it in a local copy of git, and
>  >> there was a new include directory added which I didn't have in the
>  >> makefiles... autoreconf did the job. Anyway, the patch didn't help.
>  >
>  > Can you send the corresponding log? Alex Deucher (the author of the
>  > patch) wanted to see it.
>
>  Yes.

There's something about 1400x1050 mode that the driver doesn't like.
if you remove the preferred mode from your monitor section, does the
server come up?  You might want to try another modeline for 1400x1050.

Alex