Acer Aspire AS5672 - Xorg crashes with radeonhd driver - how to fix?

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> I'm doing more testing on this old laptop: Acer Aspire AS5672[1].
> The machine has a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 gfx chip / card:
> root at kg-home# pciconf -lv | grep -A4 vga
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x00941025 chip=0x71c51002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
>    device     = 'ATI MOBILITY /ATI RADEON X1600 (M56)'
>    class      = display
>    subclass   = VGA
>
> And 'Xorg -configure' selects the radeonhd driver. Unfortunately, trying to start Xorg with this driver makes Xorg crash.

The standard radeon driver from xf86-video-ati should support that. 
radeonhd is pretty much dead.