update to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 breaks X

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X broke on me with recent updates.  Has anyone else experienced
a problem like this?

When I downgrade from
  xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64
to 
  xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64
X started working again.

Symptom: my login screen is blank.  Ctrl-Alt-F2 works so at least some
of X is working.

I intend to Bugzilla this but more info from list subscribers would be
useful.

Longer story:

Last night I updated my desktop.  After reboot, the display is blank.  
Fedora 10 is running -- I'm typing this on a text console.  But X isn't 
working.

It seems that the problem was created by updates that were made available 
between 2009 Feb 3 @ 1:30AM EST (the date of my previous update) and 2009 
Feb 7 @ 23:03 EST (this update).  According to /var/log/yum.log, these 
are the xorg packages that were updated:
 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64
 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.1-1.fc10.x86_64
 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.3-1.fc10.x86_64
 xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.3.2-1.fc10.x86_64
Sadly, yum.log does not seem to say what version was replaced.

My bet is that the ati driver is the problem.

Perhaps the previous version of drv-ati was:
Dec 26 01:48:16 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64

Where are you supposed to find old update packages?
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 is not on the original F10 DVD
nor is it in up to date update mirrors.  This would seem to be a bit
problem.  Luckily I found it on a slow-to-mirror mirror.

I'm looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and comparing it with the log from
the working setup.  I will show the chunks of differences that I think
are interesting.

I did "diff -u Xorg.0.log.old Xorg.0.log" so lines prefixed by - are
old, lines prefixed by + are new, and lines prefixed by a space are
common.

| (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
|-	compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.9.0
|+	compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0
The ATI driver went from 6.9.0.something to 6.10.0.something

| (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
|-	compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.9.0
|+	compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0
I think that this is just the same thing.

|-(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598)
|+(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598)
Looks like a typo got fixed.  I actually quoted this to show what my
display hardware is.   It is called an "Asus EAH3650 Silent Magic".

| (II) RADEON(0): Port0:
|  Monitor   -- AUTO
|  Connector -- HDMI-B
|- DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
|+ DAC Type  -- None
|  TMDS Type -- UNIPHY
|  DDC Type  -- 0x7e50

I don't know what this means.  I'm not sure which connector number I'm
using.  The card has no HDMI connector.  It has two DVI connectors and
an S-Video connector.  One of the DVI connectors is Dual-Link, and
that is what I'm using (my monitor requires dual-link).

| (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
|-Dac detection success
|+invalid output device for dac detection
This doesn't look good.

| (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
|-Dac detection success
|+invalid output device for dac detection
Seems like a repeat.  Why?

| (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output HDMI-0
| (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0
| (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: DEL  Model: 4016  Serial#: 1194472500
I guess that means that my monitor is connected to DVI-0.

|-Output DIG2 dpms success
|+Output DIG0 dpms success
Does this difference mean anything?
It appears three times for some reason.

| Set CRTC 0 Source success
|-(II) RADEON(0): DIG2: Coherent Mode enabled
|-Output DIG2 setup success
|+Output DIG1 encoder setup success
|+(II) RADEON(0): DIG2 transmitter: Coherent Mode enabled
| Output DIG2 transmitter setup success
|-Output DIG2 dpms success
|+Output DIG0 dpms success
| Enable CRTC memreq 0 success
This seems confusing.  Why does the new config ever mention DIG2 when
it seems to have renumbered DIG2 to DIG0?

| Set CRTC 0 Source success
|-(II) RADEON(0): DIG2: Coherent Mode disabled
|-Output DIG2 setup success
|+Output DIG1 encoder setup success
|+(II) RADEON(0): DIG2 transmitter: Coherent Mode enabled
| Output DIG2 transmitter setup success
|-Output DIG2 dpms success
|+Output DIG0 dpms success
Similarly confusing.

There are some keyboard-related diffs, but I don't think that they are
relevant.

| (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
|-Dac detection success
|-(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output HDMI-0
|-(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0
|-(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: DEL  Model: 4016  Serial#: 1194472500
| ...
|-(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
|-(II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
|+invalid output device for dac detection
Lots and lots of juicy lines missing after update.

| (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
|-Dac detection success
|+invalid output device for dac detection
This sequence appears a bunch of times.

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