x freezes, cannot do anything in level 5

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:47:20AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I have a machine in which X does not work.
....
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> RV100 QY [Radeon7000/VE]

I had big troubles with recent ati driver/Xserver combo.  To that
extent that my old monitor used in tests got damaged (most likely
by this driver although I cannot be absolutely sure).

Various details at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478608

As for now I backed off to binaries from F10 to have something to
look at.  That likely requires also replacing xorg-x11-drv-evdev,
which I have not done, or xorg.conf changes. Otherwise you will
loose your keyboard and a mouse.

    Michal