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01-20-2011, 08:48 PM
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Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 52
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Installed my videocard's drivers, restarted -> black screen...
Thing is, after installing my videocard's drivers (Ati Sapphire 5850) using flgrx, and restarted the OS, my monitor shuts down (no video signal) and I hear a beep from the speaker, that's all.
This happened after I installed the drivers... so I assume this is a driver related thing.
Im using Debian Squeeze RC1 amd_64.
I can boot via recovery mode.. but what should I do?, how can I uninstall the drivers?
Thx in advance.
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01-21-2011, 03:05 AM
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Registered: Aug 2009
Distribution: Debian testing
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Did you install them from the repo (apt-get install fglrx etc) or from ati's installer?
Did you make an xorg.conf? Did you check xorg's log for errors (cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE)?
Is hal installed and running, so as toprovide xorg with the relevant info about your monitor etc?
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01-22-2011, 10:11 AM
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Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 52
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I ONLY ran "apt-get install fglrx", thats all I did, nothing more, and after reboot my Debian only showed a black screen.
Maybe I missed some steps, dont know.
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01-22-2011, 01:05 PM
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Belarus
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable
Posts: 471
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HAL isn't needed for Xorg any more, so it's not a problem.
You should check log for errours grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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01-23-2011, 12:40 AM
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Registered: Jan 2011
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Too late for that, I formated and installed all over again, and Im not planning on installing my video drivers, I dont need them.
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01-23-2011, 01:00 AM
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 163
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FYI, My monitor would do the same (and did the same this morning after the xserver updates).
My solution: I downloaded and ran the .run file from ATI/AMD themselves.
Then ran aticonfig --initial, all good.
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01-23-2011, 12:44 PM
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Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Cluj, Romania
Distribution: Debian Testing
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Probably xorg.conf was not set up automatically.
The .run driver from atis site works well.
BTW you just as well use an integrated Intel card if you want to use the oss driver... It is a waste of money to buy a 5 series card and use half of it...
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01-24-2011, 10:28 AM
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Registered: Jan 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gradinaruvasile
Probably xorg.conf was not set up automatically.
The .run driver from atis site works well.
BTW you just as well use an integrated Intel card if you want to use the oss driver... It is a waste of money to buy a 5 series card and use half of it...
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I got Windows 7 (for games mostly) on the other HDD, so, no waste here.
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