Upgrading ubuntu to Karmic Koala with blank black screen
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7th, 2009 by ph-lee – Be the first to commentI spent today upgrading ubuntu from 9.04 ( Jaunty Jackalope) to 9.10 (Karmic Koala). However upon restarting GRUB loads and the kubuntu load progress bar screen loads. This is then followed by a blank black screen. At first I thought the upgraded had completely flattened my machine!
The first step is to get yourself to a console where you can actually do some stuff. So do a restart and when you see the GRUB loaded screen hit ESC. You can then boot into recovery mode to get into a console.
To get KDE and Xserver to start we need to get rid of the old xorg.conf. [ubuntuforums.org]
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
This should now get you some graphics.
Next we need to install the missing ati drivers. [launchpad.net]
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
After this you’ll want to configure the driver with aticonfig and amdcccle.
Hopefully after a reboot this should fix the problem.