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Information about the problem of system lockups with the ATI driver.

==Problem description==

A few minutes after starting X windows the system locks up hard.

==Affected Models==

*ThinkPad {{T42}}
*other ThinkPads with a FireGL chipset and possibly other ATI chipsets

==Affected Operating Systems==

*Xorg 6.9.x 

==Status==

The problem has been fixed in 7.0.  However, some Linux distributions still release 6.9.x as their current version.

==Solutions==

The easiest solution is to switch to the "vesa" driver in xorg.conf.

You can also downgrade to 6.9.x or upgrade to 7.0.  Debian users can get 6.9.x packages from [http://snapshot.debian.net].


==Related Links==

*[http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/03/msg00967.html a mailing list discussion]
*[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363559 Debian bug report]