hoti0101
July 8th, 2008, 02:09 AM
Sorry if this has been posted before, I have been searching but was unable to find anything. I am a noob to ubuntu, but ever since (try to) upgrade my video card driver, things have started to not work so well.
I had a working (quite well) ubuntu 8.04 desktop and clicked an icon that said I haven't installed restricted drivers for my video card (ATI Firegl X2 256). I decided to give it a shot even though I know ATI drivers have had problems in the past. It installed and when it rebooted my desktop wasn't available (blank screen). I ctrl-alt-del to reboot, and ran a few commands to redo what I did (don't remember what, got help from the forums).
While I was searching for an answer I ran across Envy and decided to try that. Ever since installing it my desktop only boots into a visible desktop 1/4 the time and I can't see video on any movie files I have (sounds plays just fine, codecs have been installed). I did uninstall Envy once and try to use the default display, but it was much worse than before, so I tried to reinstall Envy again with the same results. The Envy drivers appear to be working, since the 3D is much better than it used to be.
Any idea how to get my desktop to boot every time? What is up with the movie files not displaying (they are playing, I can here them!)? I know I am an idiot for not backing up my xorg.conf file and for messing with a perfectly good desktop (I was curious). Help would be mucho bueno.
I had a working (quite well) ubuntu 8.04 desktop and clicked an icon that said I haven't installed restricted drivers for my video card (ATI Firegl X2 256). I decided to give it a shot even though I know ATI drivers have had problems in the past. It installed and when it rebooted my desktop wasn't available (blank screen). I ctrl-alt-del to reboot, and ran a few commands to redo what I did (don't remember what, got help from the forums).
While I was searching for an answer I ran across Envy and decided to try that. Ever since installing it my desktop only boots into a visible desktop 1/4 the time and I can't see video on any movie files I have (sounds plays just fine, codecs have been installed). I did uninstall Envy once and try to use the default display, but it was much worse than before, so I tried to reinstall Envy again with the same results. The Envy drivers appear to be working, since the 3D is much better than it used to be.
Any idea how to get my desktop to boot every time? What is up with the movie files not displaying (they are playing, I can here them!)? I know I am an idiot for not backing up my xorg.conf file and for messing with a perfectly good desktop (I was curious). Help would be mucho bueno.