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kw_martin
August 24th, 2011, 12:32 AM
Monitor: AMD Radeon HD 6450

I got it working by in grub menu, first typing "e" to edit the first line, and then going to the line starting with "linux", and adding Vga=792, and then typing ^-X. This took a few hours of trial and error and forum searching to get to:):).

Next I went to System->Hardware->Additional Drivers and downloaded the ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver.

I also ran the update manager.

These seem to have fixed things.