crash on start and shutdown

[FritoBandito]

Fairly often when Im loading up PCLOS at the first graphics screen with the fading in bull my screen goes black and the computer stops starting up.
I have an RC410 (Radeon Mobility 200M) and im using the ATI X1950 and earlier driver.

Also fairly often when I go to shut down the computer crashes. The shutdown sound effect starts skipping but progresses forward (in the sound) then eventually just keeps skipping and stops.

any idea of what I should be doing?

[Cressida]

Try hitting or using the "Esc" key so that you can see the logs of what is the last line before your problem and report it.     (I had a problem for a while with the pata_ali module.)