On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:50 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
You might try booting with nomodeset. I have a r530 based card and while things are getting better I can still coerce an X lockup or kernel crash (it's hard to tell which is happening from the console sometimes). Things are stable there (but at home with an r280 card nomodeset breaks things) when I use nomodeset.
Looks like nomodeset is a good work around for me. So far I have not seen any lockups since booting with it. I do see a corrupted screen, I think right when GDM starts to load, but once it loads the display is fine.
Regards, Jim H