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

[Wes James]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> > 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?
>
> 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?
>
>
After messing with the video settings again and getting a black screen and
fixing again, I have to now run /etc/X11Xreset as there is no xorg.conf
file any more after my first move of it to /root/.

After getting the video to work again I tried ctl-alt-f1 ,etc and all the
screens are just black, no terminal.  ctl-alt-f7 of course brings me back
to a gui login window.

wes
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