I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my beefed-up Compaq Deskpro EN. I have a Hauppauge TV card in it, and also a ATI card to connect a monitor. My LCD-TV has a monitor connection, so I can use a standard cable to connect it to the TV.
After installing Ubuntu 9.04, everything worked fine (of course, it's Linux after all!). Knowing that I have the ATI card, I thought I would try to configure it. I messed around and I think I also installed some ATI-stuff from the Add/Remove-menu.
Anyways - when restaring the computer the next day, it froze when X started. In order to solve this, I used the recovery/safe-boot option, and booted into a root command line session.
Being logged in as root, I didn't have to use "sudo". So, I just removed the ATI driver like this:
aptitude remove xorg-driver-fglrx
Aptitude suggested a solution, and I went for it (fingers crossed).
Rebooting resurrected my X-session and all is now well.
Lesson learned!
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Thank you for this post, I thought I was the only one that Installed that ati thing and had catastrophic visual failure! Helped me a lot!
Thank you for this post, I thought I was the only one that Installed that ati thing and had catastrophic visual failure! Helped me a lot!
Thanks for your help! It was a lifesaver!
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