rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:
> I've been having some trouble with my Gateway 450 and its Mobile
> Radeon card.  I find that the Ctrl-Alt-<n> keys (to change to a
> virtual tty) lock up the X server, as does apm sleep mode.  When I
> restart X, there's garbage at the top of the screen, and it's locked
> up and I have to reboot.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?  Anyone have a fix?  I did some googling,
> but could only find other reports of the problem; no suggested fixes.

This is a known issue with the Radeon video driver when using DRI (3d 
acceleration). Disable DRI, and it will be fixed. Apparently there is a 
patch submitted to XFree86.org, but they haven't put it in yet.

This also happened to me under Mandrake 9.1rc2, and disabling 3d 
acceleration fixed it.

-- 
Dave Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA
"If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code."


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