https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107545
--- Comment #10 from Christopher me@pc-networking-services.com --- (In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #9)
(In reply to Christopher from comment #7)
After I first boot into gnome, with it running on xorg, as soon as I have logged in and click on activities on the gnome menu and select terminal, then the little circle starts twirling, and after a few seconds the screen flashes, and it momentarily goes to the grey login background, then flashes to what can only be described as a mini pixal dump, then after a while it flashes back to the login screen again and you need to login again.
You're running into bug 105381 , unrelated to this report, fixed in xf86-video-ati Git master.
Hello Michel,
Thank you for taking the time to respond. After doing a git pull of xf86-video-ati, compiling, installing and re-booting, this has indeed solved the issue for me.
It really is next to impossible with the range of drivers that could have been the source of the error to know where to actually post a bug report. I am not a programmer, just an IT professional with decades of system administration experience, so once again, many thanks for pointing out how to solve my issue, even though I thought it looked similar to this.
Christopher.