[SOLVED] ATI drivers not downloaded properly

[SOLVED] ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby joecoeur » Jul 21st, '11, 18:05

Hi!
I got a serious problem while downloading the ATI drivers, I lost connection (battery went down on laptop, duh!)
Now when I'm booting back in Mageia, I get a black screen with some funny things
How do I boot back In Mageia with the standard driver?
Thanks for your help!
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby wobo » Jul 21st, '11, 18:28

joecoeur wrote:Now when I'm booting back in Mageia, I get a black screen with some funny things

I suppose the "funny things" are a normal login prompt like:
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Mageia release 1 ......
Kernel ......
localhost login:
If that is the case, login as root (when giving the password you will see nothing). Then start XFdrake and re-configure your graphic system.
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby joecoeur » Jul 21st, '11, 19:36

no actually it boots up to the kde desktop (I hear the nice sound) but then its a blank screen and the mouse cursor is like a white pixeled square moving on the screen.
i wanted to have the code to put at the boot so that it boots with the standard driver.
I once did that - something about boot at level 3 and then deleting the grafix card drivers..
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby wobo » Jul 21st, '11, 19:39

You can boot to "failsafe" and do that. Or you enter 'init 3' at the boot prompt of the failsafe mode.
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby joecoeur » Jul 21st, '11, 19:42

Thanks a lot my friend!
I went thru failsafe. It worked!
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby wobo » Jul 21st, '11, 19:54

You can still do what I proposed: being in init 3 login as root and run XFdrake to reconfigure.
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby isadora » Jul 21st, '11, 20:02

joecoeur wrote:Thanks a lot my friend!
I went thru failsafe. It worked!

And i can mark it as "Solved"?
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby joecoeur » Jul 22nd, '11, 15:52

Yes please! btw can you remind us how to mark as Solved (there is no button anywhre for that :-) )
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Re: ATI drivers not downloaded properly

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 22nd, '11, 16:41

ATM only moderators can do that because you can only edit your own posts for a short timespan.
A button for this is in the works since quite some time: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=537

If the thread gets solved really fast, you can edit the original post, and prefix the Subject with [SOLVED].
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