Nixie Pixel
June 2nd, 2009, 10:30 AM
Hi, I recently tried to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 via the update manager, and could never successfully boot into Ubuntu afterward, due to a graphics problem. Turning off quiet/splash screen made no difference, I still saw the problem.
So I reinstalled 9.04 from scratch (keeping /home intact, on a separate partition), formatting /. Afterward I was able to boot into Ubuntu. But my Radeon HD 3870 X2 needed a proprietary driver and when I activated it, upon restarting I saw a very similar graphics problem to what I saw when I upgraded. I will attempt to show the problem below (sorry for the crappy cell phone picture):
http://nixiepixel.com/misc/deadjaunty.jpg
Any ideas what this is and/or how I can fix it?
Thanks!
So I reinstalled 9.04 from scratch (keeping /home intact, on a separate partition), formatting /. Afterward I was able to boot into Ubuntu. But my Radeon HD 3870 X2 needed a proprietary driver and when I activated it, upon restarting I saw a very similar graphics problem to what I saw when I upgraded. I will attempt to show the problem below (sorry for the crappy cell phone picture):
http://nixiepixel.com/misc/deadjaunty.jpg
Any ideas what this is and/or how I can fix it?
Thanks!