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whale_steward
Asked: 2014-04-26 05:38:48 +0800 CST

fglrx no screen found on ubuntu 14.04

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i upgraded my computer from 13.10 to 14.04, now my screen goes black after booting, but i can access tty1.

after a little experimenting, i tried using start x it gave me this error (from /var/log/Xorg.0.log).

i have tried :

also fglrxinfo gave me this Error: unable to open display (null)

and all of them still gave me the same result, what option left that i have ? what should i do and is there a step that i miss ?

thank you

ati

3 Answers

  1. First of all what is the model of you graphic card ? It can be found using this command:

        lspci | grep VGA

    I faced the same kind of issue recently. I had a Ubuntu 13.10 with a Radeon HD 3850 using fglrx-legacy drivers, and I was forced to remove them in order to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04. The 14.04 generic display driver is ok but only provides a software rendering mode. I confirm that the standard fglrx drivers won't work (black screen) with old ATI cards such as the HD2xxx-4xxx series.

    Once the 14.04 installed you can try to install fglrx-legacy drivers with those commands (worked for me on 13.04+, not tested yet on 14.04) or via Synaptic:

        sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade
    sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy

    more info in this post : Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on 12.10 Quantal: fglrx (legacy) 12.6 unsupported, what to do?

    You can test if the drivers are properly working by using the following command

        glxinfo | grep render

    Video drivers are always the painful part. I am also interested. Please keep us informed if you manage to solve your problem !

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  2. Also if it is too late for the question owner, I write this answer. I don't know if this is the right method, probably not, and I'm not an expert, but what I know is that this works for me.

    Since the release Ubuntu 13.04 I had some problem after the upgrades, and in particular after the booting (I have dual boot) the monitor didn't receive any signal. After several forum researches I localize the problem. I have an old monitor and so I need to manually add some parameters to the file Xorg.conf. In the last release Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the file Xorg.conf is missing. Here what I do step by step:

    1. Enter in a tty mode or alternatively in the recovery menu select the option root (and in this last case remount the main partition sudo mount -o remount,rw /)

    2. Open (or create if it doesn't exist) with root permission the file Xorg.conf: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    3. Edit the file with the right parameters, here my file:

      Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "aticonfig Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 EndSection

      Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection

      Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection

      Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection

      Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection

      Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection

    Finally you have to reboot. Note that I added the SubSection part in order to solve my blank screen problem and in particular the parameters that I added are specific for my screen.

    Please I you are an expert, or simply you find some errors, please don't hesitate to correct me!

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  3. in the end i gave up, waiting for answer that might never come.

    so this is what i did:

    WARNING: THIS WILL DELETE ALL OF YOUR DATA AND PARTITION, BACKUP FIRST!

    1. test whether ubuntu 14.04 using live cd can working properly
    2. while in live cd, choose Erase disk and install ubuntu 14.04
    3. proceed with installation

    i don't know what the cause, but with this 'clean install' solution i can use ubuntu 14.04. still, i hope someone can give a better answer or solution to this problem.

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