Bug#551840: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: after upgrade radeon driver crashes often with sig-11

[Brice Goglin]

Mike Simons wrote:
> I think installing the -dbg package to see if the two mystery 
> frames just below xf86SigHandler get filled in could help.
>   

-dbg will only help for gdb, see below.

> As a work-around, I have switched the driver to "ati" which also appears
> to work on this machine... and not crash, the xorg server hasn't crashed 
> in 12 hours after driver switch.
>   

ati just loads radeon underneath. So it should crash the same.

> - What information do you need?
>   


A full debugging backtrace caught with 'bt full' in gdb after installing
xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg

By the way, you should drop your multiple "Screen" lines in your config
and just use the RandR 1.2 syntax. See section III of
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

Brice