xorg-dev ATI X1550 drm problem

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

> I know, the card is very old. But the issue is not a low framerate or
> anything. It just crashes the complete X as soon as I start either warzone
> or nexuiz. Not even a CTRL+F1 is possible to break to the console.
>
> Both worked with the stock X-server version, therefore this seems to be a
> regression with the development X-server.


This is an AGP card?  Have you tried setting different AGPModes in 
xorg.conf?  Or even forcing it into PCI mode with the BusType option in 
xorg.conf?

Is the machine still accessible via ssh?  Maybe you could try running 
Xorg in gdb and getting a backtrace when the crash happens.

Adam