xorg crashes with signal 11 on startup

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:

> I have not tried xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-radeon work good enough for
> me now.

radeon is part of the ati driver.  You can specify either "ati" or 
"radeon" in the Driver section of xorg.conf.

radeonhd [-devel] is a separate driver from a different source.

IME, radeon is stable and works on the whole range of cards, although 
acceleration may be lacking on the newer R600/R700 cards.  radeonhd aims 
to support those newer cards but is more experimental.

So try ati/radeon.  If it doesn't work on your card, or doesn't provide 
acceleration you need, then go to radeonhd.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA