Dear Julien, Installing the 7.7 version has fixed the problem. Many thanks for your prompt advice.
With best wishes, Adam Bartley On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:48:19 +1100, Adam Bartley wrote: > > > Package: libgl1-mesa-dri > > Version: 7.6.1-1 > > Justification: renders package unusable > > Severity: grave > > > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > > > The latest update freezes the system entirely whenever *any* applications > > that use opengl start. There is no way to > > reboot safely and the system must be hard rebooted. As there is no > response > > at all I have not tried anysort of trace > > on the error, though will do so if requested. (Please give instructions.) > > The system is a powerpc ibook running a > > radeon 9200. Only the latest version added to 'testing' causes this > error. > > > Please upgrade to mesa 7.7 from experimental. If that doesn't help > please provide your dmesg, xorg.conf and Xorg log. > > Thanks, > Julien >