Ubuntu boots into Terminal

[teron678]

After installing the latest ATI Driver (Catalyst 11.4) .. Ubuntu boots into Terminal is there any way to rectify this problem without disabling driver/booting into safe graphics mode???

[pclinuxguru]

First - not terminal but rather command prompt log in.

Second - this happened because 11.4 didn't have needed drivers to properly support your GPU.

FIX = boot to safe mode and select safe graphics mode, now install a OLDER cat version that does support your gpu.

[teron678]

I tried going back to ATI catalyst 10.10 .... seemed it worked but one big problem I'm having is the monitor keeps saying "Resolution out of Range" .... how do i rectify this problem ...

here is my xorg.conf

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

Section "Module"
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:2:0:0"
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
EndSubSection
EndSection

Can someone help me out ...

[teron678]

I got it working by installing "Additional Driver" ... now i have another problem compiz is not opening ... do u know how i can rectify this problem ..??

[pclinuxguru]

That is a known problem with compiz and driver updates.

Temp work around was to use another rig to set the wanted settings then copying over the .compiz folders from home/.config/.gconfig

Permanent fix, yet to find. Moved to Natty 11.04 rather then ever looking for the fix any longer lol.