[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.8.1~git20080521.04500c84-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> After a dist-upgrade for testing, starting the X server reliably crashes the 
> entire machine. The display backlight turns off and the machine does not 
> respond to a ping from the network.
> Installing the latest package from the experimental branch did not fix this 
> problem.
>   

Does it help if you had any of the following option to the Device
section of your xorg.conf?
    Option "AGPMode" "4"
    Option "AGPMode" "1"
    Option "BusType" "PCI"
    Option "DRI"   "False"


> Section "Device"
>       Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M7 LW)"
>       Driver          "radeon"
>       BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>       Option          "DynamicClocks" "on"
>       Option          "AGPMode" "8"
>       Option          "AGPFastWrite" "on"
>       Option          "EnablePageFlip" "on" 
>       VideoRam        65536
> EndSection
>   

You might want to comment out AGPFastWrite and EnablePageFlip for now.

Brice




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