I recently installed Xubuntu 16.04 LTS
on my HP Pavilion
. Unfortunately, after installing and restarting it immediately boots to a black screen.
Hardware specs are as follows:
CPU: A4 3300m
GPU: Radeon HD 6480G (APU)
RAM: 4GB
Note that I have had the same problem on multiple distributions of Ubuntu starting as far back as 14.04 and on every flavor of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, even Mint).
On those previous installations I added nomodeset
to my grub commands, and then installed fglrx
which actually fixed the problem (despite suggestions to fix the problem saying that fglrx
should be uninstalled). Now, however, fglrx
is no longer supported on Ubuntu 16.04 so this method doesn't work.
My understanding is that it is a bug with the open source driver, but this seems unlikely since I've not seen any bug reports on it, and this issue has been around for at least 2 years.
Any ideas on what I can do?