[xubuntu-users] Graphic card disaster

[Fred Roller]

On 02/25/2014 06:33 AM, Michele Mor wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> I have a laptop with a dual boot - Win 7 and Xubuntu 13.10.
> The laptop is an Acer Aspire 4810TZG and it has a dual graphic card, 
> Intel + ATI Mobile Radeon HD4330.
> Unfortunately, during my neverending quest for the perfect Linux 
> system, I have tried to use a program to update my ATI drivers from:
> http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install
>
> Needless to say, after following the procedure and the installation of 
> those drivers, when I log into Xubuntu, my screen has blue and black 
> stripes.
>
> Short of backing up everything and re-installing Xubuntu, does anyone 
> know how I could remove those drivers and install working drivers?
> Note that using the Ubuntu recovery option I can use a command line 
> (even if when I tried it seemed not working as expected) - or I can 
> use SystemRescueCD.
>
> Thanks!
> Michele
>
>
from the above site:

  * *Double click*on the downloaded*.deb file*to Install the application
    using the*Ubuntu Software Center*or manually with dpkg -i from the
    command line.

from command line have you tried dpkg with the purge option
     dpkg --purge [package name]

even if you boot to your blue striped screen you should still be able to 
ctrl+alt+F[1-5] for a terminal login...

hope it helps, good luck.  Find out where the package broke and give 
some feed back to it's author. It looks pretty good.

Fred

p.s. I had something similar happen a ways back and it turned out to be 
a frequency setting that was the culprit.

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