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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.

Denjay
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  • Try 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 21:56
  • That returned Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:26
  • So try dpkg --get-selections flgrx* – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:30
  • And that returned fglrx deinstall; fglrx-amdcccle-updates install; fglrx-updates install – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:34
  • Try following the answer here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/78906/ati-amd-proprietary-fglrx-graphics-install-fails-how-can-i-resolve-the-problem – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:46
  • Should I be able to do all that from the root shell in recovery mode? I tried sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdccle-updates and that returned W: Not using locking for read only file /var/lib/dpkg/lock and E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/ and E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:54
  • What happens if you try to run those update packages you listed before? – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:55
  • Sorry, not sure how to run those. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 23:01
  • Just type fglrx-updates install – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 23:02
  • fglrx-updates: command not found Just for clarification, when I entered dpkg --get-selections flgrx* it returned each of those fglrx... on the left side of the screen and then install on the right side. They were listed on the same line but opposite sides of the screen. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 23:05
  • Hmm... okay, I'm not sure. Sorry – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 23:07

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