Login messed up after upgrading kernel

Sun Jul 28 17:34:54 UTC 2013

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:19:21 +0600
Junayeed Ahnaf <nirjhor at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Linux 3.10.x kernel and I have AMD proprietary graphics
> driver running akmod. The 3.9.9 kernel series was working fine until
> the latest update came. 
> 
> Now I can't log in using the new kernel, tthe screen goes black and
> it logs itself out. I can't even log back in.
> 
> The older kernel is working flawlessly though. Any solution?
> 
> Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
> Software Engineer @ Hulu
> Twitter @ Nirjhor
>  		 	   		  

Tough luck for you.  You'll just have to wait until AMD update their
driver.  I gave up on the proprietary driver years ago; it's incredibly
buggy and there's a lag between kernel updates and updates for the
driver. Why don't you switch to the free drivers?

Ananda