(Linux) More than one X Session with ATI Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver

(Linux) More than one X Session with ATI Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver I would like to start another x session but I can't do it anymore, since I installed the Proprietary ATI Drivers. Apparently it seems to be were the problem is coming from.
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Guest [Entry]

Why not replace gdm with xdm or kdm?

Guest [Entry]

"Urgh, This has led me to discover a world of yuck that I wish I remained ignorant of.

In short, it seems that GDM has been rewritten, and support for running >1 instance of GDM on the same machine has been taken out.

The GDM list has several threads on the work being done to get GDM working again, as well as pointers to in-development sources that have some of the work already done. There's a (closed, because it's an upstream issue) Ubuntu bug as well

So, if multiple GDMs is what you want, you may have to do some work.."