System freezes with radeon 9100 graphics card

[Glenn Johnson]

I have had an ongoing problem with -current freezing during a restart of
the X serer.  The graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9100.  I am pretty sure
this is related to DRI as I have not had it happen with DRI disabled.

I am not sure if the problem is with the radeon kernel module, with     
XFree86-Server, or something else.  The freezes totally lock up the     
machine, no ssh access is possible, no crash dumps are produced, I have 
to hit the reset button and run fsck in single user mode.               

Is anyone else seeing this with a radeon card?  Any options I can set
to alleviate the problem?  I going to turn on DRM_DEBUG and see what
that yields.

Thanks.

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Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net