jcount
October 19th, 2012, 01:31 AM
I just upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 (online) I have a Radeon 6970 in my machine IT won't boot with the 3.5 kernel (blank purple screen)
It will boot with 3.0.17 since the fglrx driver is not loaded - but hence no hardwareacceleration or watching moving images...
I also have to boot into gnome cos in standard unity mode there's no menubar.
I can set my system to use the open Xorg driver from there but this poses another problem. When i boot into 3.5 my fan will run amok higest setting or no regulation with the open xorg driver - which is really noicy....
So my question is this what's the easiest work-aroud for my issue? Fan control with xorg-open or is there a way I can get the fglrx driver to work?
PS have tried both fglrx and fglrx-updated - not that it probably matter atm - both result in blank purple screen upon boot
It will boot with 3.0.17 since the fglrx driver is not loaded - but hence no hardwareacceleration or watching moving images...
I also have to boot into gnome cos in standard unity mode there's no menubar.
I can set my system to use the open Xorg driver from there but this poses another problem. When i boot into 3.5 my fan will run amok higest setting or no regulation with the open xorg driver - which is really noicy....
So my question is this what's the easiest work-aroud for my issue? Fan control with xorg-open or is there a way I can get the fglrx driver to work?
PS have tried both fglrx and fglrx-updated - not that it probably matter atm - both result in blank purple screen upon boot