Restart problem after installing graphical card driver

Question

My laptop is Lenovo T400, running Ubuntu 10.10.

1. My problem: I just run jockey-gtk and installed ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver. But after reboot, there is a short period of graphical "Ubuntu" and then instead of starting X-window it completely changed to command line to ask me to login. Even after login and then issuing xinit, it still failed to start X.

2. To solve this problem: I followed this post, where one person suggested to

   you can simply write

   sudo apt-get remove fglrx
   

   This worked for me. If it doesn't work, then try

   sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx
   

   and restart.

   I actually don't need the driver anyway, so I issued the first command after login under command line.

   But after reboot, the situation is even worse, and there is now even no command-line interface to ask me login, instead the screen is completely blank with just some ambient light in the background and Ubuntu is hanging there probably forever. So I have no chance to try the second command the person suggested.

I was wondering what I can do now to solve my problem? Thanks and regards!

Answer 1

This is happening when you after the removal the ATI drivers some bits are left in the system.

Could you please try following steps and get back here.

1. apt-get purge fglrx -modaliases fglrx amdcccle fglrx-kernel-source xorg-driver-fglrx xorg-driver-fglrx-dev

2. rm /etc/ati

3. rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf*

4. rm -rf /usr/share/ati

5. Reboot.