I'm running Quantal alpha 3 and few nights ago the new interface to install the proprietary drivers landed. I decided to test it and selected fglrx a the driver I wan to use for my graphic card (HD5770). The other choice was fglrx-update but I picked the first of the two since no more explanations were provided.
Upon reboot, the computer throw me back to tty1 and a console login prompt. On tty7 the last message displayed is :
* Stopping save kernel messages [OK]
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.g | grep EE give :
[ timestamp] (WW) No matchingDevice section for instance (BusID PCI:0@2:0:1) found
Nothing special pop in dmesg nor in kern.log about fglrx though I have a lot of error about fd0 which is the floppy disk I don't have I guess.
I'm pretty stuck right now since I don't know how to remove fglrx and revert to the xorg ati driver by command line, cleanly. I also ignore if the new interface for proprietary drivers has a command line interface...
Cheers,
Thomas
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.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series] [1002:68b8] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:0344]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EX58-DS4
Package: fglrx-installer (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-6-generic root=UUID=d5cc10bb-b9e9-43e9-8864-eb2d33b8e760 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-6.6-generic 3.5.0
Tags: quantal ubuntu regression reproducible compiz-0.9
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-6-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
dmi.bios.date: 03/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F11
dmi.board.name: EX58-DS4
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF11:bd03/11/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEX58-DS4:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEX58-DS4:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: EX58-DS4
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.37-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.3-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.1.902-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~really6.14.4-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.19.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.1-1build1
Thomas, I don't know what problem fglrx is having, but I'll try to help get your system usable again.
To get rid of fglrx, run:
sudo apt-get purge fglrx
(You could use 'remove' as well as 'purge'. 'purge' removes the leftover configuration files, too, which probably isn't a big difference in this case.) That should remove it cleanly.
And then reboot. When fglrx is not present, the Xorg ATI driver should run automatically, again.
To pursue this problem, it would help to file the bug with Ubuntu's bug reporting program, apport. It will collect information about the hardware and software of your system, that will be needed to examine what's going on. You can do that for this existing bug report, by running the command:
apport-collect 1030151
When you make new bug reports, it's 'apport-bug' from the command line. (Also available as 'ubuntu-bug' if that's easier to remember.) Thanks, and I hope this helps!