> Now for the the Compaq Evo N600c - and the ATI Radeon M6 - which I also > reported a few times on this list. When 9.0 is installed on this > notebook - the graphics work fine! But if I change to a console > (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and then back to the X session (Ctrl-Alt-F7) the X locks > up (as well as the keyboard!) and the system becomes unusable (and YES I > tried the ALT-SysRQ-R magic keys without success). Even SSHing into the > notebook and killing the X (init 3 for example) doesn't help.
Have you tried to boot without the framebuffer ? (vga=no) in lilo ? It seems to produce the same problem for me with a GeForce 2MX ... and nvidia's drivers. Stef
