Comment 51 for bug 16873

Wow! finally other people having this problem I have been trying to fix it for over a week!. I do not use ubuntu but clearly you all have the same issue with a Radeon 7k and X.org as I do. anyways it crashes the kernel driver and then the screen remains blank. I can clearly still use the computer however as I have blindly rebooted the system after this occurs by typing ctrl F1 and typing reboot in a terminal I had already opened.

Without loading dri everything runs fine, I had discovered this early on as I would switch to my other computer and read the X logs from a putty window which is how I found the kernel driver crash. I hope someone fixes this problem soon :)