Linux Garbled screen after update

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I recently upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 on both of my machines, a Dell Studio 1555 and my Desktop. While on the laptop is smoothed out the rough edges of 8.10, on desktop it made the situation from bad to worse.

Earlier my Display was not being detected nor were the Ati drivers properly worked, even the restricted ones gave me a blank screen. I upgraded today from 8.10 and after the restart, when the login window is supposed to display, I get a garbled screen, the text is not garbled, the whole screen is garbled. Will post its pic soon.

I tried repairing the X-Server but of no use. My screen is a Samsung LCD TV and video input to it is provided by my HD4850. Any idea as to why is this happening?
 
Same here .. ATI fglrx works poorly with Ubuntu.

Only solution is disable fglrx and install the latest 9.5 after creating debs.

I had working system with fglrx for few weeks but later on it went kaput :P

P.s : No issue with fglrx in Mandriva and Slackware :)

Edit : The grabbed screen must be looking like stretched logo and constant flickering ? I had same problem thats why I removed it :P
 
My problem is that I can't see jack, the whole screen is garbled, will post the pic in my next post. U tell me how to proceed?
 
The flickering screen with Ubuntu logo was a normal thing for me, it started fine even after that flickering screen in 8.10 Now the screen is completely messed up. Take a look a the screenshot. The other thing I also noticed was that when this happens, the keyboard also goes unresponsive, no lights r lit, no keys work, the only way to escape is the manually switch off the system but shutting down the power.



PS- Sorry for double posting :ashamed:
 
Sadly, as I recall, ATI did not release drivers in time for updates Xorg server, and they dropped support for older cards as well (something like that) to piss off users.

Like Darky said, either disable ATI in Ubuntu's hardware manager UI then install latest fglrx driver from ATI site, or, if you can, try Fedora (if you want GNOME) or Mandriva (if you want KDE)... I'm assuming the existing flickering/garbling isnt an indication of graphics card/monitor hardware problems...
 
^^ Yes. I have always reinstalled it. So counting from its release I have reinstalled almost 5times and everytime I ended up with this screen. Though 9.5 fixes this grabbed screen but still later on it gave some weird resolution error. :(

Anyway I am off from Ubuntu for now. WIll see if it works with 9.10 :P Small community based distro have a lot better ATI integration than the bloated buntu :P
 
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