System doesn't boot after amd 11.9 driver install

Question

Im having a bit of a problem with ubuntu. I just installed amd 11.9 driver from the amd website.

Now the boot is stuck at this image.

How do I resolve the issue without reinstalling Ubuntu? The computer is running Ubuntu 11.10 64bit with an a6-3400m CPU and a 6520g radeon card.

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1

I had all sorts of fun getting the 11.9 driver installed and working. Even using the "additional drivers" didn't work for me. I had the same issue you had as well. In the end I followed the following steps after booting into recovery and remounting, then dropping into netroot prompt:

1) Remove the fglrx and revert configuration:

    sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
    sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

2) Follow the manual install guide:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases
    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs (only if on amd64 as I was)
    sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run (choose build deb packages)
    sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
    sudo aticonfig --initial -f

3) Reboot.

Solution 2

On my Ubuntu 11.10 (Lenovo g770), I couldn't start the X (LightDM). I tried Catalyst 12.1 drivers. I got some errors about /usr/lib64.

So, I created a symlink and it worked.

ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64

Solution 3

If you can access another terminal (press ctrl+alt+f1 keys) type sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh.

That is the official driver remover from ATI, after that use the "Additional Drivers" application to install the ubuntu packages.

After you reboot to a clean desktop make sure all the old fglrx packages are gone:

sudo apt-get purge fglrx*

Remove your xorg.conf

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reinstall xorg

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64

Configure Xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Reboot:

sudo reboot

After you get to your desktop again use the "Additional Drivers" program but don't enable the post update ones, use the previous version.

Comments

[Bruno Pereira]

can you access another tty? (press alt+ctrl+f1)

[Emil]

I ran the command and it did it's thing and I can access the gui fine. Thanks for that. However is there any way to install that driver? 11.9 specifically? I need it to run gnome shell properly.

[Emil]

That was overkill but it worked like a charm. Even gnome shell is working now (Other than horribly disfigured/skewed horizontal scroll bars and tooltips[sometimes]). Thank you very much. This is the reason I switched to ubuntu. =)