Comment 48 for bug 118605

Ilja patch have not done to me any good. I have the same problem with my Radeon 9550: at any atempt to either switch a user or to logout, the system freezes completely. The only way to get out of it is Alt-PrintScrn-RSEIUB. And even with this I have to hold each key quite for a bit otherwise there is no reaction.

I also tried several other workarounds proposed by different people having similar trouble. None of them did not work for me.

I've looked through the Ilija's patch and as far as I can see it is quite undestandable why it helps only KDE folks. I'm running GNOME without any KDE traces on it. The directories referenced by the patch simply do not exsist on my machine. Exactly the same whay as the ATI original file directories for xmd/kmd do not.

I've switched to using Open Source ATI driver and do not have any problems with it so far.

I think it's a shame that LTS release get out with a such a crapy restricted driver proposed. I do understand that this is mostly ATI falt but the driver was supposed to undergo a minimal test before being included into LTS release and proposed for use.