Comment 69 for bug 419126

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:26 +0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> [This is an automatic notification.]
>
> A new version of the -ati driver is now available in Karmic.
>
> This is a significant update to -ati which brings in kernel mode-setting
> (currently disabled) and scores of fixes for DRI2, EXA, etc.
>
> I've posted the new version of this driver to the following PPA,
> would you mind testing it and seeing if it resolves the bug you
> reported?

manually installed the new version,
apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
  Installed: 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

gdm loops is still an issue.
Only adding DRI 0 to xorg.conf enables login.

attaching dmesg to this post.
Will do another fresh start with clean xorg.conf and then supplying the
Xorg.0.log