Comment 2 for bug 346028

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Apoorva (apoorva1911) wrote : Re: [Bug 346028] Re: Gnome fails to start Asus F3Ka ATI RadeonHD2600

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Michael Vanderheeren <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Just recovered my computer from the same problem. The bug is NOT in the
> usplash package. it's the AMD ATI driver called fglrx. Instead you
> should use for the moment the opensource driver. The following is a
> howto:
>
> 1. get into recovery mode (when grub loads, press ESC, select recovery
> mode)
> 2. choose to get NETROOT from the menu
> 3. sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx
> 4. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
> 4. sudo reboot
>

Thanks Michael. This worked.

Cheers,
--Apoorva