ATI nomodeset hang on boot

Sat Nov 15 07:15:32 UTC 2008

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 18:01:54 -0800,
  David L <idht4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On a related subject, having booted without nomodeset and used
> it that way all day today, the window refresh performance seemed
> very slow.  Could there be a correlation or is it something else (or
> am I halucinating)?  Are there any benchmark tools that put X through
> some speed tests to compare before/after performance?

This might be bug 469378.