I appreciate the smart-ass remark, that is why I signed up for the mailing list you know. Don't get quite enough abuse from my wife.
Mandrake 9.1
PS/2 mouse and keyboard through Belkin KVM.
Radeon VE Graphics card. Using the radeon driver. Hardware exceleration on or off is the same.
Booting to init5.
There are known issues with Mandrake's stock Radeon driver and DRI being enabled. But if DRI is *disabled*, then the problem goes away. You said the problem exists whether you have DRI enabled or not. Have you verified this by actually looking at XF86Config-4 and making sure DRI is disabled? If you are using DrakConf, maybe it's not actually working, and you need to edit the file by hand (I say this from experience...). If so, edit the file and look for the following line and section, and comment them out:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
# Load "dri" # direct rendering <== COMMENT OUT
EndSection#Section "DRI" # Mode 0666 <== COMMENT OUT THIS WHOLE SECTION #EndSection
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Download the one of the two drivers (I used the second one, which is slightly more up to date) driver and upgrade it with --nodeps:
# rpm -Uvh XFree86-server-*.rpm
Now you can enable DRI and it will work fine. This solution worked perfectly for me, on a Radeon 7500-equipped laptop.
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