X freezes on exit

Hi,
I have just installed Arch linux with Xorg 1.9 and ati driver xf86-video-ati 6.13. I can start X with
$ startx
which gives X working with keyboard mouse and three xterms. I can switch to virtual consoles with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] and then back to X without problems, but when I try to exit X freezes completely with a blank screen and frozen keyboard. The only way out is hard reboot. I tried without xorg.conf and with the xorg.conf generated by X -configure, with the same result. I also tried to add "dbus" to the daemon list as suggested in the archwiki page for X, but seems useless. The same opensource driver works well under Debian and Ubuntu.
Is there any diagnostic I can do?

I think it's the same issue, and for me it came with an ati driver update.
My issue which sounds similar to yours, is that when trying to gently quiet the wm so as to get out of X, then the screen freezes. For me, then it also happens when trying to reboot or shutdown from a terminal in the wm. The same goes for if trying to press ctrl+alt+backspace or running pkill X.
I think that there are some issues with the foss ati driver with some cards, and that it's different which problems you have from card model to model...
I'm having KMS enabled also, I need that, since if disabling it, then I cannot switch to any VTs from X. KMS is supposed to make switching VTs faster, besides giving native resolution in the console, but for me its totally impossible to switch VTs without KMS...
If this is entirely unrelated to your issue, then I apologise in advance!
Last edited by mhertz (2010-11-14 15:19:22)

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