Ubuntu 15.10 Release fglrx issue
I guess you have read the Wily release notes saying
AMD's fglrx driver does not work with the current kernel (1493888).
It is warmly recommended to uninstall the fglrx driver before upgrading to
Ubuntu 15.10.
The open source "radeon" driver can be used as a temporary replacement
until a fix is available.
Why else would you have removed fglrx
before upgrade in the first place?
Either downgrade to Kernel 4.1 or use radeon
until a fix of fglrx
becomes available.
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1493888
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Aizuddin Zali
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Aizuddin Zali over 1 year
Just upgraded from 15.04 to 15.10 via
apt-get dist-upgrade
. Nothing was customized, everything running from official repos.Before upgrade I already purged all
fglrx
proprietary driver from the system and running on standardradeon
driver.The upgrade went successful and after booting into new 15.10 im installing fglrx again via
Software & Updates
for proprietary driver, no errors installation was success.However during booting up to make the driver kicks in, the booting stucked at below error:
fb: switching to fglrxdrmfb from EFI VGA
My display:
root@mylenovo:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# lshw -c display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 1 bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:37 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0c00000-f0c3ffff memory:f0800000-f081ffff
Any thing that I missed causing
fglrx
not to work?-
Admin over 8 yearsI provided a workaround for this issue on this answer.
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Aizuddin Zali over 8 yearsAhh i forget the very important thing with new release which is to read the release note first!! Thanks!
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e-sushi over 8 yearsThat explains everything… They should pop up a big fat messagebox when core stuff like that is broken. (Currently, I’m almost sorry for having updated things.) Fact is the fglrx and fglrx causes segfaults within lightdm. I wonder how that boils down to the kernel. Anyway +1