ericw, why don't you leave the BIOS at "auto"? You said you don't have any freezes then. Would be much better than disabling DRI.
Kyle, the problem seems to attack amd64 systems in particular. Can you build an amd64 package for Edgy please? -- [regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts - drm lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs