I made a new package with the patch installed, (everything else is the same as the previous package) so until an official new package comes out, you can use the one i made, and live without the crashs.
wget http://eli.criffield.net/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-driver-ati_6.5.7.3-0ubuntu8_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-driver-ati_6.5.7.3-0ubuntu8_i386.deb Eli Criffield -- [dapper] xrandr freezes the system (radeon, MergedFB) https://launchpad.net/bugs/47775 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs