For the past couple of Ubuntu releases the live CD has always worked fine, however after installation I would always get a blank screen on startup. I could reboot the system by blindly CTRL + ALT + F1 and sudo rebooting
, so it's definitely the display/open source drivers.
To counter this, I have always had to boot into safe graphics
mode (or add nomodeset
, xforcevesa
to the grub boot options) then install the proprietary AMD drivers. This solved the issue in the past, however now that Ubuntu 16.04 does not support the proprietary drivers, does anyone know of a way around this issue?
My laptop is a Lenovo Z575 with an AMD A6 APU. Most of the forum posts are not up to date enough for dealing with 16.04.
Any ideas? Thanks
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
? I've an A8 and am using the amdgpu-pro drivers, I had problems with lightdm and sddm, purging the former and reinstalling the later seemed to do the trick. – pbhj Aug 11 '16 at 12:24