Bug#515512: X freezes for me too

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Sir Jective <sirjective at googlemail.com> wrote:
> When I run Nexuiz, the system freezes after a few seconds, and after
> reboot there are a number of lines saying "tossed event which came in
> late" in Xorg.0.log.old.
> This does not occurr with ATI's fglrx driver.
>
> I'm using a stock Lenny Xserver and kernel (686, not tainted).
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350
> [Radeon 9800 Pro]
>
> The freeze does not occur if I reduce agp mode from 8x to 4x (8x works
> with fglrx, though).

Post your xorg log and pci ids we can add a quirk for your chip as
well.  fglrx either knows of a special workaround for your
card/chipset combination or it may use 4x too.  It's hard to say.
Most of the time AGP is luck.

Alex