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funkmuscle

Member

Registered: 2006-02-09

Posts: 547

ati-drivers

Hey,

I just upgraded the new ati-drivers-8.22.5-4. My pc now boots to a black screen when X is about to start. Can't get to user mode. How do I get out of this?
I forgot how to boot in repair or single mode to try to fix this. I can really use some help here.
I did all the symlink, etc as the instructions said during the pacman installation. I got a install error which I can't remember but I did see it posted yesterday by someone else but as I went back to that posting, that part we edited out. Hmm... strange but I just need some help here.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: ati-drivers

Boot to runlevel 3 (or 1 if you have kdm/gdm in daemons array of rc.conf). To do that in lilo (maybe grub is the same), add 3 at the end of the boot line.

funkmuscle

Member

Registered: 2006-02-09

Posts: 547

Re: ati-drivers

thanx everyone.
I figured it out just after I posted it. Now I've booted but afraid to reboot as I may lose it again.
waiting newer ati-drivers. hope no power outage.