Lucid switchuser causes black screen

[NoOp]

On 05/24/2010 07:36 PM, arshad wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:14 -0700, NoOp wrote:
...
>> After being chastised by Chris Coulson on 546578 and 5651538 (btw 560911
>> is a duplicate of 546578), I did some tests. The only machines that I
>> have the problem on are those with the nvidia-96 driver. So I removed
>> the nvidia-96 driver and tested and now the machine switches between
>> users w/o issue. I'm reinstalling the nvidia-96 driver & will let you
>> know if that causes the problem again.
>> 
>> Notes:
>> 
>> - purged gnome-screensaver. Same problem.
>> - reinstalled gnome-screensaver (2.30.0-0ubuntu2). Same problem.
>> - purged nvidia-96. I'm able to switch between users correctly.
>> - tested on machines w/o the nvidia cards & all work. So I suspect that
>> it's something to do with the as always wonky nvidia proprietary drivers.
>> 
>> Added note: just reinstalled the nvidia-96 driver & tested. Results are
>> as in
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/546578/comments/81>
>> 
>> So at least in my case it the nvidia driver that is causing the issue.

> 
> hi,
> no i'm using ati.
> 
...

I finally just filed a new bug for my issue under the nvidia-96 package:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/585685>