installing ati/amd graphics driver blacks out screen on 27 inch imac xubuntu

[Wes James]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 October 2012 16:49, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is a gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode.  Is there something I can put after
> > gfxmode.  I changed it to 2048x1024, but still black screen.
>
> Start by removing the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it works.
>
> (By "removing" I mean the standard safe practise: rename it to
> something else, perhaps even move it somewhere else, in case you need
> to put it back again later.)
>

Just an FYI, but I had to do:

mount -o remount,rw /

since in 12.04 when you go in to recovery mode and select go to root it is
read only.  I mv'd the conf file to /root and rebooted and that worked.
 Thanks!

I tried to use ctrl-alt-f1 to get a console to log in to, but that didn't
work.  I tried all the ctrl-alt-f1 f2 f3, none worked.

How do you get a console when X11 is running?

wes
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