HI,
I have been trying to get a video card installed, but haven't been able to get past the login screen on startup. The video card is an ATI Radeon X700.
I did a lot of messing around prior to installing the card. I googled for info on "ATI Radeon X700 install" and got lots of info from 2006 and prior -- which now seems out of date. Anyway, I used the Adept Manager to install xorg-driver-fglrx and xorg-driver-fglrx-dev and also envyng-core. I noted several threads said to go with "ATI Radeon (vesa)"...
I physically installed the card, then started the computer and it always hung up at the Kubuntu login screen. The mouse pointer moves, but clicking has no effect, and the keyboard is useless. Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace have no effect.
I tried booting from the live CD, and after normal startup I went into the system settings. The system recognizes the video card, because it lists it as "ATI Radeon". I decided to experiment and chose "ATI Radeon (vesa)" under the Monitor settings.
None of that helped, so I uninstalled the video card and plugged the monitor back into the motherboard's video slot. Everything works fine without the videocard.
After more research, I found the Ubuntu site "The open source ATI driver (xserver-xorg-video-ati)" at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
It told me to get rid of fglrx, so I used the Adept Manager to uninstall xorg-driver-fglrx and xorg-driver-fglrx-dev and also envyng-core.
I then installed the videocard, started the computer, and the same freezing mouse/keyboard happened again. Once more I started from the live CD, checked the system settings, and there were two monitors listed. The primary was Plug n Play, but the driver was "Vega". The secondary was generic monitor and the driver was "ATI Radeon". I swapped them, so the latter was primary, and then tried to edit the xorg.conf file.
I could edit and save it in Kate, but am not sure if the Ubuntu settings are really up to date. Are they what I should be using? The site says to use apr-get to install libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri, but I already installed them earlier using the Adept Manager. However, using the live CD, glxinfo is not recognixed and I get the message to use sudo apt-get install mesa-utils. I did that, gave the xorg.conf my best shot, saved it, and restarted the Xserver by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
That took me to a full screen terminal and I don't know how to get out to there. When I rebooted the computer, everything freezes at the login screen as before.
After trying several variations of the above I have uninstalled the videocard and am back to normal.
Out of curiousity, I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and it is completely different from what I created. It is now so simple it is only one quarter of its former size.
What can anyone tell me about trying to fix this while booting from the live CD? If I make changes in the xorg.conf file while using the live CD, does that actually change the version saved on my computer? I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.... Thanks, -- Phil
I have been trying to get a video card installed, but haven't been able to get past the login screen on startup. The video card is an ATI Radeon X700.
I did a lot of messing around prior to installing the card. I googled for info on "ATI Radeon X700 install" and got lots of info from 2006 and prior -- which now seems out of date. Anyway, I used the Adept Manager to install xorg-driver-fglrx and xorg-driver-fglrx-dev and also envyng-core. I noted several threads said to go with "ATI Radeon (vesa)"...
I physically installed the card, then started the computer and it always hung up at the Kubuntu login screen. The mouse pointer moves, but clicking has no effect, and the keyboard is useless. Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace have no effect.
I tried booting from the live CD, and after normal startup I went into the system settings. The system recognizes the video card, because it lists it as "ATI Radeon". I decided to experiment and chose "ATI Radeon (vesa)" under the Monitor settings.
None of that helped, so I uninstalled the video card and plugged the monitor back into the motherboard's video slot. Everything works fine without the videocard.
After more research, I found the Ubuntu site "The open source ATI driver (xserver-xorg-video-ati)" at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
It told me to get rid of fglrx, so I used the Adept Manager to uninstall xorg-driver-fglrx and xorg-driver-fglrx-dev and also envyng-core.
I then installed the videocard, started the computer, and the same freezing mouse/keyboard happened again. Once more I started from the live CD, checked the system settings, and there were two monitors listed. The primary was Plug n Play, but the driver was "Vega". The secondary was generic monitor and the driver was "ATI Radeon". I swapped them, so the latter was primary, and then tried to edit the xorg.conf file.
I could edit and save it in Kate, but am not sure if the Ubuntu settings are really up to date. Are they what I should be using? The site says to use apr-get to install libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri, but I already installed them earlier using the Adept Manager. However, using the live CD, glxinfo is not recognixed and I get the message to use sudo apt-get install mesa-utils. I did that, gave the xorg.conf my best shot, saved it, and restarted the Xserver by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
That took me to a full screen terminal and I don't know how to get out to there. When I rebooted the computer, everything freezes at the login screen as before.
After trying several variations of the above I have uninstalled the videocard and am back to normal.
Out of curiousity, I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and it is completely different from what I created. It is now so simple it is only one quarter of its former size.
What can anyone tell me about trying to fix this while booting from the live CD? If I make changes in the xorg.conf file while using the live CD, does that actually change the version saved on my computer? I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.... Thanks, -- Phil
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