I tried to download the driver from the AMD website and when it is installed it still causes a failed login.
Xsession: X session started for ryan at Sat Sep 24 14:23:48 EDT 2011 Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. startkde: Starting up... Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kded(1643): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " Could not open library ksmserver: Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: (libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory startkde: Shutting down... klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. Xsession: X session started for ryan at Sat Sep 24 14:29:43 EDT 2011 Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. startkde: Starting up... Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kded(2078): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " Could not open library ksmserver: Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: (libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory startkde: Shutting down... klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. ** Summary changed: - kubuntu 11.10 unable to log in + xsession fails on login due to video driver kubuntu 11.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/854140 Title: xsession fails on login due to video driver kubuntu 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/854140/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs