We have exactly the same kind of ATI board ("01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]") which we can quite reliably and quickly crash in Jaunty by just taking "Preferences / Screensaver" and with "Preview" previewing some 3D-intensive screensavers; "SkyRocket" seems one of the quickest to kill the machine and turn off DVI signal to the LCD monitor.
We will experiment with 'Option "NoAccel" / "DRI" "false" / "RenderAccel"' and with 'Disable "glx"' but I'm suspecting that disabling anything which prevents screensavers from using OpenGL with direct rendering is going to help...
We have exactly the same kind of ATI board ("01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]") which we can quite reliably and quickly crash in Jaunty by just taking "Preferences / Screensaver" and with "Preview" previewing some 3D-intensive screensavers; "SkyRocket" seems one of the quickest to kill the machine and turn off DVI signal to the LCD monitor.
We will experiment with 'Option "NoAccel" / "DRI" "false" / "RenderAccel"' and with 'Disable "glx"' but I'm suspecting that disabling anything which prevents screensavers from using OpenGL with direct rendering is going to help...