more lockup laptop problems with dapper

[James Strandboge]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 22:24 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Compaq 1700t laptop  ATI Mobility Radeon 3D Hardware Graphics.
> 
> I've tried some of the suggestions I've seen posted here but none of 
> them view the work.  with breezy, the laptop worked beautifully.  it was 
> a joy to use but now, a minute or two after booting, it locks up at any 
> to power cycle.
> 
> The messages log says nothing useful.  Just a bunch of errors from 
> gconfd just before it shuts down since the server is not in use.
> 
> The only way I can keep this machine up is by booting into single user mode.
> 
> Some ideas of what I should try would be most welcome.

Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files?

Jamie