Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
>> > The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all
>> > packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back,
>> > showing exactly the same behaviour as before.
>> 
>> Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)?
>> It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too.
>
> Yeah, still hangs hard. Trying the normal radeon driver together
> with Option "DRI" "False" as suggested to me in another mail
> did let X start up once, but set the screen to much darker
> colours (which also continued when exiting). Starting X
> another time again made the machine hang again.

Could you post pointers to your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log?  I wouldn't 
think the X1550 is very different from my X1650, which is AFAICT 
problem-free.