Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
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| reply to C0deZer0
Re: Fresh install of xubuntu blacks out after installing video
C0deZer0, regardless what it says I'd consider not loading that driver. Do you KNOW you need it? Doesn't it flag it's a proprietary driver with warnings?
A new Linux user combined with hardware not cooperating with a proprietary driver is a bad combo. I'm personally aghast Ubuntu went this direction after going through holy-hell with such an NVidia driver on my laptop. It only took 6 months to discover the monitor hardware info (called an EDID) was from a large bad batch from SamSung - but ONLY the proprietary driver cared. This was only after a week of fixing another problem to make the damn driver select the internal monitor and not the external connector. I can't even imagine a new Linux user getting into what I did off the bat.
Here's what I know as "official" from Ubuntu on the ATI driver:
»https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Binary···owto/ATI
Here's the thread devoted to getting ATI driver running:
»ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=515573
Hope this helps clarify from a different perspective. |
