Comment 23 for bug 288620

I have the same issue. Laptop will white screen. only way to recover is ctrl alt f6,f7,f8 and bounce in and out of virtual terminals. Very annoying.
Using Debian Squeeze / compiz ( yeah i know compiz but i actually use the cube :) )
lspci output: http://pastebin.ca/1595179
dmesg output: http://pastebin.ca/1595186
uname -r : 2.6.30-1-amd64
non-free AMD/ATI r6xx - r7xx display driver version: 1:9-9-9
I've also run the drivers off ATI site
ATI Catalyst™ 9.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 9.9
 Honestly I'd love to see a fix for this been fighting it through several distros trying to kill it since I bought the laptop. Hate to think the solution will be changing the hardware.