(Dapper) Totally bizarre GDM error

[Darryl Clarke]

On 26/03/06, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:17:17PM -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> > It has an ATI Radeon chipset, if that matters.  I have not experienced
> > this issue with my nVidia based boxes.
>
> Mine is an ATI Radeon as well. lspci output is below.
>
>

> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

Interesting.

The ati driver was updated on the 23rd for me, and that seems like
it's around the right time that I witnessed this behavour first.

I found this bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/36335

It looks like it matches.

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