I'm trying out unstable for various reasons, and though I'm not expecting to stay with it (I'm going to wait for testing to catch up) I still want to get as much as I can working as well as I can.

I have a ATI X1250 graphics card, which lspci lists as the following:

At first in testing I was using fglrx, but fglrx 9-3 didn't work with xorg 1.6 and a 2.6.29 kernel. Then they released fglrx 9-4, and though that was supposed to work with xorg 1.6, my card was not still supported (the X1200 was) and so I tried some other things. radeonhd didn't work (1.2.5 -- it froze my computer entirely) and radeon 6.12.2 didn't work either. radeon was peculiar because I could see the terminal shrunk down and repeated 4 or more times on the screen unreadably small and in the color green. I'm hoping someone has experience with the radeon driver and can tell me an option to set in the xorg.conf file that will fix my problem. I looked at "man radeon" but most of the options don't make much sense to me.

As I write this I'm using xorg 1.4 and the 2.6.29 kernel and the 1.2.1 radeonhd driver. My fear is that xorg 1.6 will make it's way into testing and I will have to pin xorg components somewhere in lenny in order to get my graphics to work. TIA, any help would be appreciated!

I've tried radeon 6.12.2 again, and radeonhd 1.2.5 as well. I don't know what I did differently, but now both seem to work. With all the changes back and forth between testing and unstable I must have messed something up, though, because now my arrow keys don't work. Right, left, and down do nothing, and "up" starts the screen-shot mechanism, as if I'd clicked on the "print screen" button. Does anybody know how to fix the arrow keys in this situation? Thanks in advance.

Do the rest of the keys work correctly on your keyboard?
Its possible to change the keyboard layout via KDE etc or by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

All the letter and number keys and the enter key worked in gnome, and all the keys worked in tty1 - tty6. The problem was that long ago I spent some time getting the keyboard mapping right so that my multimedia keys worked properly. I had changed '/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default' to include a line that read 'xmodmap /etc/xmodmap.conf' where xmodmap.conf held my own keyboard bindings. For some reason with the new updates that line in '/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default' produced this strange effect on my arrow keys and some other keys. I commented out the line and the arrow keys seem to work. Thanks for reading and thanks for commenting.

Glad to hear you found a solution,and took the time to post it.