Lamar Owen wrote:
Same symptoms you have. I worked around it by disabling rhgb on the boot line (see /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove all rhgb kernel command line parameters). Probably something related to the kernel DRM/DRI stuff, although the problem persists regardless of kernel I boot (the .11 kernel had been working fine, but with the new Xorg it didn't).
Thanks but actually, I have already tried it by removing "rhgb quiet" from grub to see what happened and X still died. X dies after rhgb ends.
I don't think that this has anything to do with with the kernel. I downloaded Ubuntu 5.10 and tried to install and the same thing happened. They use 2.6.12... It must be either the radeon driver that is bad or X itself.
Other people have reported having similar problem with ATI on both Suse 10 and Ubuntu 5.10, so it must be something recent in X.