So I installed Ubuntu 13.10 as the primary OS on my laptop. I installed Windows 8 in another partition and set up GRUB to be the boot loader. Eventually I updated Windows and it became a black screen so I reinstalled Windows in that partition. Somehow doing this removed Windows from GRUB's menu and so I tried to reinstall GRUB which I had a little trouble doing. I tried it a few different ways, one of them was booting from a LiveCD and involved mounting and unmounting things (did this pretty much blindly as I don't have a lot of the know how). That didn't work but I came across the standard boot-repair program and it worked fine.
The big problem I have no is that Ubuntu does not load after selecting it from GRUB. It just hangs at a black screen. When I select recovery mode, it goes to the menu. When I resume the normal boot, it reads out:
Ubuntu 13.10 Denjay-Laptop tty1
Denjay-Laptop login:_
With a flashing underscore. After a few seconds it then adds to that line initct1: Event failed
I also checked all the file systems with the recovery mode and with a LiveCD and nothing was anomalous on that end. I've also gone through updating GRUB so I think something wrong post-GRUB if that makes sense.
I heard that it might be a video card problem so I tried nomodeset
which still resulted in a black screen. One user had too many drivers installed on their card and they input dpkg --get-selections nvidia-*
to show their drivers. My laptop has "amd a8 3520m apu with radeon tm hd graphics" and I'm not sure what the driver package name for that is. So what should I replace nvidia
with for to get the driver?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'
(http://askubuntu.com/questions/23238/how-can-i-find-what-video-driver-is-in-use-on-my-system) – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 21:56Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
– Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:26dpkg --get-selections flgrx*
– jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:30fglrx
deinstall
;fglrx-amdcccle-updates
install
;fglrx-updates
install
– Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:34sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdccle-updates
and that returnedW: Not using locking for read only file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
andE: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
andE: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
– Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:54fglrx-updates install
– jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 23:02fglrx-updates: command not found
Just for clarification, when I entereddpkg --get-selections flgrx*
it returned each of thosefglrx...
on the left side of the screen and theninstall
on the right side. They were listed on the same line but opposite sides of the screen. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 23:05