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I just got a new special edition HP laptop (dv6-6145dx). It's got the AMD A8-3500m fusion APU and 8gb of ddr3 1333mhz ram.. anyways.. I tried to install the amd64 iso and it turned the screen black before the install screen popped up. My friend suggested I try the i386 iso, which I did. I installed linux just fine (except for apparently it didn't recognize my graphics card, so it fell back to the ugly blue screen install version).

Therefore, when I booted up for the first time in Linux, it too turned the screen black, so I rebooted into recovery. When I did that, it loaded into command line, and when I tried to get into the GUI, it told me no screens were detected.. so I have no clue how to fix my problem..

any ideas?

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This question should instead be filed as a bug report, thanks! Instructions here. – Jacob Johan Edwards Feb 1 '12 at 17:18

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I have a notebook based on an AMD APU too, everything is fine after installing the proprietary driver http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page

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ok i'm a linux noob, and i only installed it out of the box cuz my friend said 11.10 is super easy for end users like me.. so can you just give me an apt-get <filename> lol – Sean Nov 20 '11 at 21:51
ok.. I tried doing it by myself but it won't let me apt-get anything cuz it always says "E: Unable to locate package <name>" – Sean Nov 20 '11 at 22:13
be more specific, what command did you use? – Micro Nov 21 '11 at 18:41

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