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
>
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 xorg-video- ati
> 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-
> 4. sudo reboot
>
Thanks Michael. This worked.
Cheers,
--Apoorva