upon reboot ot shutdown X.org hangs

[lod]

Binary package hint: xorg-driver-fglrx

when restarting/rebooting/shutting KDE/GNOME session, Xorg proccess hangs and I can't killed even with kill -9, executed as root. I can only hard reboot or hit Ctrl+Alt+Del.
happen just after installing latest fglrx driver.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

#Section "Module"
# Load "glx"
#EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

lspci:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]

1) `lsb_release -rd`: Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10

2) `aptitude show xorg-driver-fglrx`:
Package: xorg-driver-fglrx
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:8.543-0ubuntu2

3) I expected to work better than the previous driver

4) messed up everything..

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

It's important to note, were you using KDM? If so, you might be seeing a duplicate of bug 38915. If you are using KDM, please try the fix on that bug.

[lod (altoas)]

it works!
i've disabled atieventsd perm. and i can again restart/shutdown normaly.
is there any penalty for disabling atieventsd?