galgamo
October 16th, 2011, 05:33 PM
Hi all!!
I'm trying to do a clean installation of ubuntu 11.10 in my desktop computer. I have an Ati/Amd hd 6450
I tried the live-cd and it worked well so i proceed with the installation. It finished ok.
But when it boots the screen keeps blinking with only one multicolor line at the top.
I thought that has to be the ati driver (i solved this problem in ubuntu 11.04 which i am running now) so i booted in recovery mode.
The first thing i noticed is that there isn't a failsafex option which there is in ubuntu 11.04 recovery mode.
Then i booted to command line and downloaded the latest ati driver for linux. I changed its permission and installed it (before i installed all the dependencies needed).
Everything was ok (i checked the fglrx log) so i run "aticonfig --initial" but it didn't work because the system miss libgl1.so.
Despite of that fact rebooted the system to try
This time i didn't get the blinking screen. it seemed to start xserver but it didn't.
Now i can see the initial post of telinit 3 but it froze. so i switch to console with ctrl+alt+f1 and run startx
i got "no screen found"
so i tried installing the package "fglrx" (what you should not) and rebooted again.
The fglrx ruined the ati driver, however now i could run aticonfig --initial. I did it and rebooted. Now i got the login screen, which i shouldn't because i set autologin.
So i tried to log in but the xserver crashed and rebooted itself coming back to the login screen.
I don't know what to do more,
As i've said above, in ubuntu 11.04 i solved it booting into recovery mode, then into failsafex and then i click in additional drivers and installed the ati driver.
Any ideas?? May be the ati drivers doesn't work with the new kernel 3.0?
i also tried all this running first telinit 3 in the recovery mode console and it didn't work either.
Thanks for your help.
I'm trying to do a clean installation of ubuntu 11.10 in my desktop computer. I have an Ati/Amd hd 6450
I tried the live-cd and it worked well so i proceed with the installation. It finished ok.
But when it boots the screen keeps blinking with only one multicolor line at the top.
I thought that has to be the ati driver (i solved this problem in ubuntu 11.04 which i am running now) so i booted in recovery mode.
The first thing i noticed is that there isn't a failsafex option which there is in ubuntu 11.04 recovery mode.
Then i booted to command line and downloaded the latest ati driver for linux. I changed its permission and installed it (before i installed all the dependencies needed).
Everything was ok (i checked the fglrx log) so i run "aticonfig --initial" but it didn't work because the system miss libgl1.so.
Despite of that fact rebooted the system to try
This time i didn't get the blinking screen. it seemed to start xserver but it didn't.
Now i can see the initial post of telinit 3 but it froze. so i switch to console with ctrl+alt+f1 and run startx
i got "no screen found"
so i tried installing the package "fglrx" (what you should not) and rebooted again.
The fglrx ruined the ati driver, however now i could run aticonfig --initial. I did it and rebooted. Now i got the login screen, which i shouldn't because i set autologin.
So i tried to log in but the xserver crashed and rebooted itself coming back to the login screen.
I don't know what to do more,
As i've said above, in ubuntu 11.04 i solved it booting into recovery mode, then into failsafex and then i click in additional drivers and installed the ati driver.
Any ideas?? May be the ati drivers doesn't work with the new kernel 3.0?
i also tried all this running first telinit 3 in the recovery mode console and it didn't work either.
Thanks for your help.