Comment 1 for bug 16873

I am experiencing similar things. I have three systems
with ATI Radeon 7000. On two systems, that both use an
ASUS P4S800D-E (SIS655TX) the system freezes when X
tries to load. By freezes, I mean: (i) ctrl-alt-backspace
does not kill X, (ii) ctrl-alt-del does not reboot the
machine, (iii) can no longer ping the card, etc...
Commenting out the 'Load dri' line solves the problem.
The third system though, is an AMD Athlon 64 on an
ASUS K8V board, and everything loads fine with dri.