Felix Miata writes:
I've had multiple ATI cards from that era go bad. You might have a hardware failure in progress that manifests only when previously un- or little-used functionality is put to use.
Well, the PLL being a bit skittish is what made me retire the system at the end of last year, but otherwise I haven't seen any problems. I've confirmed it boots correctly into the KDE4 desktop after a cold boot.
Why kernel-pae instead of kernel-desktop?
The reason for this was lost in the mists of time, but that system started life on a Pentium-III before being moved to an Athlon-X64 (chiefly to be able to use more memory, it didn't become all that much faster :-).
I have two rv370 cards working normally in TW with kernel-desktop-4.0.3, a Radeon X600 on 64 bit and KDE5, and a FireGL on 32 bit and KDE 5. On both I have compositing disabled globally. Maybe disabling compositing would be telling for you. Here's how I do it:
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