Cannot get X to start

[industrial-ghetto]

When gdm starts, I get a black screen which is a tiling of several boot
screen images.  It's very small.  I thought that perhaps this was because of
a lacking Modes line, so I went ahead and created an xorg.conf file and then
put a line in it.  It did change the resolution of the tiled screen, but
nothing else happened.  I cannot seem to be able to solve this problem,
although everything looks right.

I have tried dpkg-reconfigure as well, this seems to have been very quiet.

I am running the versions that one would get if YESTERDAY one downloaded the
SMALL CD install from Debian and simply blindly loaded it onto the system. 
Nonetheless, Xorg -version states that it is
server 1.7.7, release 2010-05-04
Current OS 2.6.32-5-686 
pixman 0.16.4

Xorg.0.log is enormous, over 1GB in size.  The following are repeated:
(EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9
(EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE start -9
(EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE idle -9
(EE) R128(0): Idle time out, resetting engine...
and then again.  

The stock 5.0.1 Debian distro worked flawlessly.

I don't have any way to get out of this locked-up state; ctrl-alt-+ does not
work, there is no ctrl-alt-F1, etc.  It would be nice to be able to reenable
these, but this looks ilke a driver problem of some sort.

The drivers look to be correctly chosen in the xorg.conf file.

The generated xorg.conf file with my modes lines looks like:


Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      380   300     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "HWP"
        ModelName    "LE1911"
        HorizSync    24.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 76.0
        Option      "DPMS"
        Mode    "1024x768" "1152x864"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForcePCIMode"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCEPIOMode"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCENoSecurity"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CCEusecTimeout"            # 
        #Option     "AGPMode"                   # 
        #Option     "AGPSize"                   # 
        #Option     "RingSize"                  # 
        #Option     "BufferSize"                # 
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Display"                   # <str>
        #Option     "PanelWidth"                # 
        #Option     "PanelHeight"               # 
        #Option     "ProgramFPRegs"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # 
        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"                 # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "r128"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Modes "1024x768"
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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