I am trying to install a new graphics card on my system and the screen comes up flashing, with the screen split in the middle.
The left edge of the screen meets the right edge of the screen in the middle.
Any suggestions?
I am trying to install a new graphics card on my system and the screen comes up flashing, with the screen split in the middle.
The left edge of the screen meets the right edge of the screen in the middle.
Any suggestions?
i have the same graphics card, amd-radeon 6670 manufactured by msi and amd a6 apu.
After installing 12.04 (amd64) I had to boot in recovery mode.
First choose Networking option to establish connection and remount hard drive in r/w.
Ctrl-D back to menu and choose the root console option.
Use apt-get update
then apt-get dist-upgrade
.
While possibly extraneous I update my initramfs
and update-grub
before rebooting.
Proprietary Catalyst driver worked pretty well, search for fglrx wiki and follow the distribution specific install guide.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
does not (by itself) upgrade to a newer OS release. sudo apt-get upgrade
will never upgrade any packages that require any package to be removed or any package not already installed to be installed. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
is the way to upgrade packages that do require those operations to be performed. It's originally called dist-upgrade
because in other OSes like Debian where you do a release upgrade with apt-get
/aptitude
, you run that after modifying /etc/apt/sources.list
. This answer is not saying to do a "distribution upgrade."
Jul 11, 2012 at 19:30