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Thread: installed amd catalyst now wont show desktop

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    installed amd catalyst now wont show desktop

    I installed the amd catalyst from amd site and installed it and rebooted and the computer lets me log in and then it goes to a black screen and I can see and move the mouse pointer how can I fix this please
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    Re: installed amd catalyst now wont show desktop

    I fixed it by running these 2 commands

    sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
    sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
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