Comment 7 for bug 16574

(In reply to comment #4)
> I also have a Radeon card (different model). X says it is a:
>
> (**) | |-->Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 7000 VE (RV100 QY)"
>
> After upgrading from Warty to Hoary using apt-get, X would freeze during the
loading process for
> gnome, xfce and fluxbox. I tried reconfiguring the X server but it did not
seem to help. However,
> I found that if I comment out the following lines in my
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, the X server does not freeze:
>
> #Load "dri"
> #Load "glx"
>
> Perhaps there is a driver issue with the radeon driver or a problem with the
configuration
> application? Anyway, after changing the configuration I have been running X
with 15 days uptime.
> Since you also have a radeon, I though the problems might be related.

After the lockup with the kernel from www.kernel.org, I had him try your
suggestion and it definitely stopped it from freezing. He booted the ubuntu
kernel, commented out the exact lines you said, and no longer has any lockups so
far. Sadly, none of the OpenGL screensavers work with this setting, but I guess
that is better than his X locking up every half hour.