Lucid switchuser causes black screen

[emigrant]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:27 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 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>
> 
> 

on a side note,
im not only getting black screen,
sometimes i get freeze in the login screen once i hit enter after giving
the password for my a/c. (the display is still visible)

thanks.