Check this list for: >xf86-video-ati-6.10.0 update hardlocks x I wrote it, and your problem seems similar. Are you using that driver??
Check your old x-log for entries like : >[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. I searched around quite a bit, and eventually didn't find anything useful. Though that x-error gave me a few pointers towards either the emerging mode-setting support in the 2.6.28 kernels or the the x86_PAT support within the kernels. I just disabled them both by adding >nomodeset nopat to the 'kernel' line in menu.lst/grub.conf I also downgraded the x-driver-ati.610 back to version 6.9, which had worked fine, even without the kernel commandline options. I must confess though, I've had to much to do recently, and I have not tried updating the ati driver to 6.10 again(the opensource driver, not frglx), I just keep it masked for the moment. Maybe I'll try tomorrow, maybe those kernel-cmds help. Tom
