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seabrighter
June 2nd, 2009, 04:20 AM
I upgraded to 9.04 this weekend and cannot get my display back. Admittedly, I have an ATI video card and I downloaded an unsupported driver through Synoptic. Now when I restart, I get the Ubuntu logo, followed by a few flickers of garbled colored pixels, then a frozen screen of more pixelation.

I tried booted in recovery mode and ran the utility to fix graphic display issues. It produced the following message:

xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly customised configuration file; backup in /etc/x11/xorg.conf.20090530102750

can anyone walk me through a few commands I can do from the command prompt to get the working display back?

seabrighter
June 2nd, 2009, 07:19 AM
Sorry for not digging around more! I went to this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1134935) and the link about Troubleshooting fglrx (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...thRadeonDriver) completely got me out of computer hell. Thanks forum!