blender crashes on camera view

For me it crashes right on start, also in radeon_dri.so.
I first tried the regular version (2.44), then added the backports repository (with 2.45) but was the same thing.

It may be a Radeon Mobility DRI bug, though. Maybe this bug should be forward the to ATI driver?

System is an Acer Aspire 1406LC

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0019
        Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 5
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at e8020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20061018 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1

xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2
libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.1-1ubuntu3
blender 2.45-1ubuntu2~gutsy1

(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb69460fd in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x0fe00000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x3ff00000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb458d400 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xb458d47c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

I can confirm this bug (freeze on camera view) under a non-beta Gutsy.

System here is a Compqa Evo N610c.
blender2.44-2ubuntu2
kernel: 2.6.22-14-generic

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device 00b7
        Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
        Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at 40400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 40420000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20061018 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1

Similar issue here. Blender 2.44-2ubuntu2 (gutsy) crashes when switching to camera view. Backtrace:

(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb6c990fd in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x00000004 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x00000198 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xbfda1c08 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xb6c8116c in radeonEmitVbufPrim () from /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb6d2c1b5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#6 0x08b07608 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x00000001 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#8 0x00000002 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#9 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

lspci output (graphics card only):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]

Using the open source ATI driver (Driver "ati" in xorg.conf) with DRI enabled. Works fine with several games.

This very much looks like a bug in the Linux graphics driver.
I.e. using a newer Blender version from blender.org might not help, but it's worth a try.

But I'm happy to report, that since updating to Hardy Heron, this bug is gone.

I also confirm that since Hardy I haven't seen this happen again.