I'm finding myself pretty close to throwing my computer out the window here, or doing the next best thing (ie going back to windows 
).
Despite running kubuntu for the better part of six months (currently running gutsy), I have yet to manage to get the proprietary driver for my ATI card working right. It's been simplest for me to not use the proprietary driver at all, unfortunately that prevents me from getting the most out of my graphics card. Up until tonight, every time I enabled the driver, I could still use my computer, albeit with a really distorted resolution (and this is despite following the how-to in the wiki). I would always revert back right away.
Like an idiot, I decided to give it another go tonight. After enabling the driver, it downloaded and installed as per usual. Upon reboot, I was greeted only with the initial kubuntu splash screen (on the black background in the default settings) followed only by a blank screen. No matter how long I've waited, there's been no changes. My peripherals are all getting power, only I have no screen. I tried the ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-F1 workarounds without any luck.
I don't really want to do a fresh install since there's some important data on there that I failed to backup before messing about here like an idiot. I've run a couple of searches through the forums to avoid having to post this, but without being entirely sure what I'm looking for as a solution, I didn't exactly find much in the way of help. So what the hell do I do?
).Despite running kubuntu for the better part of six months (currently running gutsy), I have yet to manage to get the proprietary driver for my ATI card working right. It's been simplest for me to not use the proprietary driver at all, unfortunately that prevents me from getting the most out of my graphics card. Up until tonight, every time I enabled the driver, I could still use my computer, albeit with a really distorted resolution (and this is despite following the how-to in the wiki). I would always revert back right away.
Like an idiot, I decided to give it another go tonight. After enabling the driver, it downloaded and installed as per usual. Upon reboot, I was greeted only with the initial kubuntu splash screen (on the black background in the default settings) followed only by a blank screen. No matter how long I've waited, there's been no changes. My peripherals are all getting power, only I have no screen. I tried the ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-F1 workarounds without any luck.
I don't really want to do a fresh install since there's some important data on there that I failed to backup before messing about here like an idiot. I've run a couple of searches through the forums to avoid having to post this, but without being entirely sure what I'm looking for as a solution, I didn't exactly find much in the way of help. So what the hell do I do?
I know enough about linux to muck things up, but not quite enough (yet) to fix them when I do. Learning through trial and error seems to be the order of the day.
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