Display driver messes things up?

wh33t · 05-24-2012, 11:11 PM

Hey LQ,

I have this problem posted on the actual Ubuntuforums but no one has replied yet so I thought I'd try here too just in case.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1986223

sunnydrake · 05-25-2012, 01:10 AM

was having some issues with ati cards and gnome3/unity few month ago. did you installed proprietary drivers with jockey? if it fails try opensource. post screenshot of desktop.

wh33t · 05-25-2012, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sunnydrake

was having some issues with ati cards and gnome3/unity few month ago. did you installed proprietary drivers with jockey? if it fails try opensource. post screenshot of desktop.

Unfortunately once the display adapter gets installed during the install process the graphics tweak out so badly I can't even tell what is what. This happens during the default install method. Is there any way to disable whatever driver is getting installed? I'd almost rather just use whatever display settings the installer environment uses.

tommcd · 05-25-2012, 02:23 AM

You could try installing 12.04 from the alternate install CD. This is a text based installer that is very similar to a Debian install. This should bypass any graphical issues during the install.
After 12.04 is installed then reboot and install the ATI proprietary driver. If you can not boot to the graphical desktop after installing 12.04 then try installing the ATI driver from recovery mode. There is also an option to "fix graphics" (or whatever it says exactly) in the recovery mode that you could try.