Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 and ATI-graphics

If you read this before you upgrade Ubuntu to 10.10. Remove/inactivate all your binary drivers before you upgrade.

If you read this after you upgrade Ubuntu to 10.10 and get a messy screen so you do not see anything and can't login. Reboot your computer in failsafe mode. Select to become root and do:
apt-get install fglrx
I also remembered that I got in the last installation phase at the upgrade a complaint about problem removing fglrx. Why do I suggest to install fglrx when we actually have a problem to remove it? Well it is easy. Since it was half installed and I could not remove it, then I tried to install it again. I saw it installed dkms and compiled a new version of the driver for my kernel.

I will now try to run the open source variant instead. I hate closed source, it is only problems.

Comments

Anonymous said…
What can you do if you read this *after* you upgrade?
Magnus Runesson said…
Read the second paragraph is a good start.

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