Ububtu 10.10 no desktop after login!

[Quackers]

System > Administration > Additional Drivers

As previously stated by sikander3786 in post #8

[Bruno^_^]

I'm sorry but the first part of post #8 was not good for me.
If I'm connected to Internet and I search additional drivers I don't find nothing (screenshot in attachment).

For this reason in the previous post I wrote the output of lspci, as sikander3786 told in his post.

lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility u1

Can you help me?
Thanks

[illuminate42]

Additional Drivers did not work for me either. It was one of the first things I tried.

[illuminate42]

It seems that there is a problem with the VGA driver that is installed by the Ubuntu 10.10 installation CD onto an HP Compaq Presario 2100 laptop with ATI Radeon Mobility U1 graphics chip set. I have found a work around that works for my laptop but I can't guarantee this is the best solution or even one that will work for you. I am sharing it here in the hope that it may help other people with the same problem.

Symptoms:
Following log-on you are left with only the desktop wallpaper and nothing else.
Changing the session to "safemode" before logging on allows the laptop to boot to a working state.

Work around:
Following a clean install booting into "safemode" and installing ATI's proprietary driver will enable to the laptop to boot normally. This is done as follows:

Switch on your laptop and boot to the log-in screen.

Select your user name. You should now see several options at the bottom of the screen.

Change the session from "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" to "Ubuntu Desktop Edition (Safe Mode)".

Enter you password and log-in.

You should then be presented with a functional destop environment. Open firefox and go to:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/10-4/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
and download the ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver - Linux. N.B. if this link doesn't work don't e-mail me it's not my website, do a serch for the driver or e-mail AMD!!

You should now have a file called "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run" or something similar, which may be in your "Downloads" folder ( "Places" > "Downloads" ) if you didn't specify a different location.

Run "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run". This should open a window with some folders in it but just sit back and be patient! After a little while you should be prompted for you root password then the driver installer will guide you through installation.

Once the driver installer has finished you will need to re-boot your laptop. In theory you should now be able to log-in normally.

[rrsodl]

It seems that there is a problem with the VGA driver that is installed by the Ubuntu 10.10 installation CD onto an HP Compaq Presario 2100 laptop with ATI Radeon Mobility U1 graphics chip set. I have found a work around that works for my laptop but I can't guarantee this is the best solution or even one that will work for you. I am sharing it here in the hope that it may help other people with the same problem.

Symptoms:
Following log-on you are left with only the desktop wallpaper and nothing else.
Changing the session to "safemode" before logging on allows the laptop to boot to a working state.

Work around:
Following a clean install booting into "safemode" and installing ATI's proprietary driver will enable to the laptop to boot normally. This is done as follows:

Switch on your laptop and boot to the log-in screen.

Select your user name. You should now see several options at the bottom of the screen.

Change the session from "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" to "Ubuntu Desktop Edition (Safe Mode)".

Enter you password and log-in.

You should then be presented with a functional destop environment. Open firefox and go to:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/10-4/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
and download the ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver - Linux. N.B. if this link doesn't work don't e-mail me it's not my website, do a serch for the driver or e-mail AMD!!

You should now have a file called "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run" or something similar, which may be in your "Downloads" folder ( "Places" > "Downloads" ) if you didn't specify a different location.

Run "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run". This should open a window with some folders in it but just sit back and be patient! After a little while you should be prompted for you root password then the driver installer will guide you through installation.

Once the driver installer has finished you will need to re-boot your laptop. In theory you should now be able to log-in normally.

Thanks illuminate42. This solved my problem.

I have an old HP Pavillion ze4800 model and experienced exactly the same symptoms.

I'm so grateful to you for posting this information here.

If it is any help for other newbies..... once the file is downloaded and in my case it would not run. I looked at the file's property and changed it so that it could be executed.

[Bruno^_^]

Hi all,

I executed your instructions, but when I ran "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run" I received this error:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

$ ./ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.MkmrNm
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.723............................................. .................................................. ..........
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.35-22-generic:; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.MkmrNm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

After that I ran this command:

./ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick

The installation started, and it took some minutes.
If finished correctly, but when I rebooted the notebook and I tried to login in Desktop Edition,
it didn't work...the same problem, the screen is empty

Illuminate42 thank you for your instructions, but I didn't solve this issue.
Can you help me?

Thanks

[rrsodl]

Hi all,

I executed your instructions, but when I ran "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run" I received this error:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

$ ./ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.MkmrNm
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.723............................................. .................................................. ..........
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.35-22-generic:; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.MkmrNm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

After that I ran this command:

./ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick

The installation started, and it took some minutes.
If finished correctly, but when I rebooted the notebook and I tried to login in Desktop Edition,
it didn't work...the same problem, the screen is empty

Illuminate42 thank you for your instructions, but I didn't solve this issue.
Can you help me?

Thanks

Very frustrating all this, isn't it? No wonder why so many people wont try Linux at all...... I've had a few problems but likely this forum is here otherwise Ubuntu will be in the bin by now - not sure how much more I can take of this before I go back to my trusted XP :lol

anyway, to fix your problem I think you want to download the version 10.10 from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...0x86&rev=10.10

The other version stopped working for me and when I tried to re-installed the driver I found the same problem as you did. I managed to fix it with the version 10.10 of the driver.

Hopefully that works for you.