[Bug 19406] New: Blank Screen, X freeze on my notebook ( Ati Mobility 9600 with radeon driver), ONLY with X.Org 7.4

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19406

           Summary: Blank Screen, X freeze on my notebook (Ati Mobility 9600
                    with radeon driver), ONLY with X.Org 7.4
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.4
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: NEEDINFO
          Severity: critical
          Priority: high
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: simon at grootbramel.net
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Hi,

I am sorry if someone has already written a similar bug report. I have read
myself through a lot of bugs in the last hour but none of the bugs I stumbled
across was similar to what I have to report.

I have a Notebook (Pentium M 1,5 Ghz with an Ati Mobility Radeon 9600), running
OpenSuSE 11.0 with the latest KDE very fine. Compiz works great and I am
satisfied. (There is no hardware-problem, obviously)
However, two month ago I updated X.Org to 7.4 (because of a compiz problem I
had have there) and everything broke down. I was frequently logged out or the X
Server froze with only the mouse movable but nothing else possible.
That was my first bad experience with X.Org 7.4.
I simply reinstalled 11.0 and avoided using the repository with X.Org 7.4 in
it.
Everything was fine again until 11.1 came out.
I thought my problem wouldn't be there any more (not in a stable release!) but
it was.

I tried Kubuntu 8.10 as well but it is the same there. At login sequence there
is a black screen in Kubuntu or a Mousepointer movable at SuSE (very laggy,
which might be due to a CPU @ 100% but I don't know). Neither in SuSE nor in
Kubuntu there would be any input possible. I can do whatever I want - only a
hardware reset brings my system down!

In Kubuntu it happens reproduceable on battery power. The live CD won't even
start then.
In SuSE it is a bit of a random game but sooner or later the system freezes.
It does not have to do with user rights (tried as root as well).

In SuSE on a freshly new installed system Sax2 made the system freeze either!
Only started Sax2 -r.
However, I even tried the fglrx driver (which I not normally do) but that
didn't work out either.


My question? Will I ever be able to upgrade my system?
AND: WHICH FILES DO U NEED TO HELP ME???


thank you!

Simon


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