David G. Miller wrote: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection [..] > and the video card is (this is a single card that shows up twice in lspci): > > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon > X1300/X1550 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) any particular reason why your using the vesa driver on what seems to be a fairly recent ATI card instead of the ATI specific drivers? Perhaps the vesa driver doesn't work as well with power management(never used it myself for very long). I'd try the ATI drivers and see if it fixes the behavior, you'll probably get much better performance at the same time, with perhaps a bit less stability depending on what you do. nate