Christian, excellent. I am not sure if that drm warning is serious or not, maybe someone else can tell if they have seen it on a working card? But it would be interesting if you can try to block the drm module to see if it is responsable for the freeze. Try blacklisting it or do it the tough way by deleting/moving the module from /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ Also try disabling the loading of dri and glx in xorg.conf.
** Summary changed: - [edgy][regression][rv280] black screen and full freeze when X starts + [edgy][regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts -- [edgy][regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs