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Ati video card after installing Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha 5 cannot login

Asked by marcobra (Marco Braida)

After installing from the alternate cd Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 5 jaunty at reboot i cannot login the graphic layer can't start.

my lspci give me:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF

I put this question as a kind of howto... a note for other users.

Please don't answer i already get a solution.

Thank you

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Press ctrl+alt+F2 make login with your user and password, then type:

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo reboot

Hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Better

Press ctrl+alt+F2 or ctrl + alt +f1 make login with your user and password, then type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo reboot

Hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

If you have a wrong visualization or a mangle screen using the: xorg-driver-fglrx

Press ctrl+alt+F2 or ctrl + alt +f1 make login with your user and password, then type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

sudo aticonfig --initial -f
sudo reboot

the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

Hope this helps