C0deZer0
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Davenport, FL | reply to jimkyle
Re: Fresh install of xubuntu blacks out after installing video
Should I just go ahead and reformat and start fresh? |
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jimkyle
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 ·AT&T Southwest
| said by C0deZer0  :Should I just go ahead and reformat and start fresh? That depends on how much customization you've done to the system. I usually spend several days tweaking a system to do what I want, right after installing it, so when something goes wrong a few months later I tend to try to fix it rather than re-installing. However if you've just done the install and haven't added much to the system, that would definitely be the quickest way to solve the problem.
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Jim Kyle |
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C0deZer0
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 ·Verizon FIOS
| Okay, so I finally get it to successfully (re)format and install, and now when I start, it talks about the software updates, but again it pops up with that same notification about updating the ATi driver. And after what just happened, I'm afraid as hell to click that again!  |
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No_Strings
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The OC | Are you running anything that requires h/w acceleration? If not, don't install the ATI driver. If you need it, install, but be prepared to manually edit the xorg.conf file ass mentioned above. |
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C0deZer0
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·Verizon FIOS
| ... okay, this is annoying.
I try to go to ATi directly to download their driver for Linux. I get the file on my desktop, and I try to double-click and it won't run. I open up a terminal, type in the name of the file completely, and it won't run. it keeps saying command not found.
... Seriously, what?  it's like who do I have to murder at ATi to get a driver that will just work?   |
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No_Strings
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The OC | 1. Check the permissions on the driver file. You may need to make it executable: chmod +x filename
2.Why not use the one from the Ubuntu repository? |
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C0deZer0
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·Verizon FIOS
| said by No_Strings :2.Why not use the one from the Ubuntu repository? Unless I'm mistaken, the one that xubuntu told me to go get through its notifier for hardware drivers is from the ubuntu repository, and that's the one that led to me having a nice blackout and unable to use the computer at all. |
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No_Strings
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The OC | Because you didn't make the required changes to the xorg file. I suspect you'll have the same result with the driver from ATI.
Good luck. |
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C0deZer0
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·Verizon FIOS
| What xorg file? I just did what it told me to do. It told me I needed the driver, I let it download and install. It asked me to reboot, so I did. When I restart, I got blackout and no way to get anything to turn up.
couldn't it just have done this already?  |
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No_Strings
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| Do you want to know how to fix it or do you want to whine about how it's not like Windows? I'm trying to help.
You should be able to get to a console as I described above, invoke an editor and make changes to the config file to properly list the driver, resolutions available and the like. |
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