Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #118605
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 118605

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Emmet Caulfield (emmetcaulfield) wrote : Re: Feisty freezes upon Logout or Switch user

Same with latest ATI ("Catalyst 8.1", really 8.452) proprietary drivers on gutsy/amd64 fully up-to-date as of the date of this post. Pretty much everything except the ATI driver is default (running gnome, metacity, etc.).

On logout, all windows/panels/chrome disappear, leaving the background image only. Logging in via ssh shows X pegged at 100% CPU; this X is truly immortal, being immune to "kill -9" as root, something I don't remember ever seeing before in ~11 years of Linux.

There is clearly something deeply amiss: this is being reported across a spectrum of drivers open and proprietary. If this is "medium priority", what warrants critical? Spontaneous detonation of computer?