ph-lee » ati http://www.ph-lee.com aspire to inspire before you expire Sat, 29 May 2010 19:11:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Upgrading ubuntu to Karmic Koala with blank black screen http://www.ph-lee.com/2009/11/07/upgrading-ubuntu-to-karmic-koala-with-blank-black-screen/ http://www.ph-lee.com/2009/11/07/upgrading-ubuntu-to-karmic-koala-with-blank-black-screen/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:30:25 +0000 ph-lee http://www.ph-lee.com/?p=215 I 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.

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