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

[Liam Proven]

On 12 October 2012 17:20, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 October 2012 16:49, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > There is a gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode.  Is there something I can put after
>> > gfxmode.  I changed it to 2048x1024, but still black screen.
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>> Start by removing the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it works.
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>> (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.)
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> Just an FYI, but I had to do:
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> mount -o remount,rw /
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> 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!

Excellent - glad to hear it!


> 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.
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> How do you get a console when X11 is running?

Hmmm. That *ought* to work, AFAIK. I have only tried Ubuntu on PowerPC
Macs, and then not much - I can't afford a Macintel - so I don't
really know. Perhaps it's something to do with Apple's odd keyboard
layout and the different functions that the function keys perform?

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