11.04 Problem After Upgrade Acer Aspire 5516

[South Shore Pats Fan]

Hi all, I've been running Ubuntu on one of my old notebooks (Acer Aspire 5516) for the past two years. My problem started when I tried to upgrade to 11.04 64 bit. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I restarted to finish, after I would log in all I would see is the background with no menus or anything. I tried doing a fresh install and seeing if that helped, but it didn't. I had to downgrade back to 10.10

Does anyone know if 11.04 works at all on the Acer Aspire 5516 or a similar model? Even at 32 bit?

[South Shore Pats Fan]

Hi all, I'm not sure what the bump policy is so if it's a no no, I apologize

[old robots never rust]

I had the same problem, and so have many others:



https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/774354

http://askubuntu.com/questions/40426/ubuntu-11-04-unity-classic-load-fails-remains-at-background-without-toolbars


A fix that worked for me: purge the proprietary fglrx driver you may have installed, then add the xorg-edgers ppa.


sudo apt-get purge fglrx
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Reboot. That should do the trick.

If you need to revert back to the default drivers:


sudo apt-get intstall ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade