DRI problems with ati/radeon on stable/7 r203425

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, David Wolfskill wrote:
...
> Well, the time for the next boot has come, and from about 10 minutes
> before I started typing this note until just now, xdm would not start.
> Nor could I use ssh(1) to login to the machine, and attempting to login
> via serial got very sluggish response, to the point that it took a
> couple of minutes to echo the login I typed, and after I hit Enter, I
> got "Login timed out after 300 seconds" before the Password: prompt
> appeared.
>
> And the xdm login banner finally showed up; I'd estimate that was around
> 20 minutes of idle time before that happened.

Does it behave differently if you disable xdm in /etc/ttys and manually 
startx?

Oh, and you should probably have Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in the 
driver section of xorg.conf.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA