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joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

After swapping from catalyst to radeon, computer freezes on start

I have been using the radeon driver for months, and everything was perfect. Today I decided to try catalyst, performance was not good, so I wanted to switch back to Radeon.

I followed the uninstallation guide, and then installed xf86-video-ati

After booting, the computer freezes at start. I see the term screen, it says starting version 127, then the line about hwdb.bin not existing. The about /dev/sda5 being clean. Then it gives me 3 messages saying kvm:disabled by bios, then a message about systemd-fsck saying than sda6 is clean, and that's all.

From here I cannot even access the terms with control alt fX.

The only reaction I get is when I kept press the power button. It gives some message, and then reboots.

the 3 grub options which I have, all of them fail.

While showing those messages, the computer seems to want start the X, but it fails, it comes back to term, then it shows the cursor blinking for 2 or 3 seconds, and then it remains forever on or off.

Last edited by joanmanel (2014-11-20 20:38:35)

Silex89

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From: Osorno, Los Lagos - Chile

Registered: 2011-10-16

Posts: 179

Re: After swapping from catalyst to radeon, computer freezes on start

Did you remove the old xorg.conf file right?

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joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

Re: After swapping from catalyst to radeon, computer freezes on start

I reinstalled the whole system. As said, I couldn't even go to tty. I know using installation disk I could have recovered it, but I decided to reinstall.