Can remove / reinstall proprietary ati drivers

[David Thulson]

Just upgraded from 9.10 tonight, had an nvidia card for a while but replaced it with an ATI card a few days ago. After upgrading to 10.4, the ati drivers were not working. Tried to remove them to reinstall, got this error.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AptOrdering:
 xorg-driver-fglrx: Remove
 fglrx-amdcccle: Remove
 fglrx: Remove
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 17 23:31:19 2010
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.723.1, 2.6.32-23-generic, x86_64: installed
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55-UD4P
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=0184f770-38c3-4629-aad2-785a5ba4c195 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
Title: package fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dmi.bios.date: 06/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F10
dmi.board.name: P55-UD4P
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.:bvrF10:bd06/28/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP55-UD4P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP55-UD4P:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: P55-UD4P
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
glxinfo:
 Error: command ['glxinfo'] failed with exit code -11: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-23-generic

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

If this is still an issue, please paste the output of this command:
sudo apt-get remove fglrx

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