Apparently I am talking to myself here but I just tried kernel 2.4.13 
and it doesn't appear to have any positive effect.

Jeff Bowden wrote:

> After a little experimentation and a lot of waiting for my machine to 
> reboot I have determined that it has nothing to do with GDM at all. 
> Even startx can hose my machine.  The only thing that keeps things 
> remotely useable is the fact that it never locks up the machine the 
> first time it runs.
>
> So where does the Radeon driver development take place?  Is there a 
> place to report this sort of thing so that the debugging can happen?
>
>
> I wrote:
>
>> I got my Radeon working on an Irongate (AMD-751 chipset) system using 
>> the patched xfree86 from debian/unstable.  It's all 3D accellerated 
>> and AGP'd using this config (excerpt):
>>
>> Section "Module"
>>    Load "GLcore"
>>    Load "dri"
>>    Load "dbe"
>>
>>    SubSection "extmod"
>>      Option "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
>>    EndSubSection
>>
>>    Load "type1"
>>    Load "freetype"
>>    Load "glx"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>    Identifier  "RADEON"
>>    Driver      "radeon"
>>    Option     "AGPMode" "2"
>>    VideoRam    65535
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> So why am I posting?   Because about 50% of the time when I log out 
>> of my gdm session my machine locks up.  Since it never locks up when 
>> I force gdm to quit, I am guessing it is during the restart sequence. 
>> Does anyone have a workaround other  "don't use gdm" to keep this 
>> from happening?   Or alternatively, is this going to be fixed any 
>> time soon?
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