Comment 241 for bug 1493888

I'm still having the same problem - booting to blank screen unless I purge fglrx*, lightdm and xorg to get to a command line interface. If I only try removing fglrx*, I get a window telling me that I have to set-up my graphics card, etc., but I can't progress beyond that. I've edited /etc/default/grub to try and remove the splash screen, and commented out the only line that seemed appropriate:
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="drm.debug=0xe plymouth.debug"
However, this lets me see that the system tries loading lightdm, but then falls down - at most, I get a single character cursor at the top left of the screen. All available updates are applied.

An abbreviated syslog is attached, but I'm afraid I don't know how to use this to track down the problem further.