Ubuntu 14.04 was working fine and without watching it closely, it was running a very large group of new updates. I noticed it had stopped to ask me a question on the amd driver update. I didn't know if I wanted to keep the package maintainers file or my current file and chose 'show comparison'....[which has NEVER worked on my computer] and the computer froze up. Had to shut it down after many attempts to un-freeze it with a hard shutdown. After that, couldn't get into 14.04 nor even into the repair mode...only get tty1 screen. Asked it to update and then do dist-upgrade. It prompted me [I think...didn't write it down] to do some dpkg statement, which I did and it then asked five times for five files if I wanted to keep my current file or use the package maintainers file. Every time I chose keep current file [without any idea if that was the right choice or not]. Now, still fails to open. I think I had to deal with something like this two years ago and it was no cake walk. Someone please help me through this in the most logical and least painful way. I know if I don't do the correct things I can make the situation much worse than it now is. I'm almost sure it is only the drivers or how they are configured in the configuration files. I have a multi-head [3] monitor system. Many thanks.
Last edited by crazybear; March 12th, 2016 at 03:36 PM.
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