[SOLVED] Black Screen on Reboot - Fedora 10

[juderb]

I installed Fedora 10 on my desktop and everything was working great. I installed the driver for my graphics card and still, everything was working fine. When I went to log off from my account though, I got a black screen.

When I reboot, the blue/white bar at the bottom grows until it is fully booted, then my screen goes completely black.

I imagine this has to do with the graphics card (HIS ATI Radeon HD4870, with proprietary ATI Catalyst 9.2 driver for Linux).

Any ideas to get rid of the black screen?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Boot up in Command Line mode Or press Alt+Ctrl+F1 at blank screen. It will drop you at command line prompt. Login there and execute this

su -
cd /etc/X11
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak
exit

Press Alt+Ctrl+F7 and Alt+Ctrl+Backspace Or reboot machine.

How did you install ATI Driver?

[juderb]

Thanks for the quick response.

I tried as you indicated, but I can't enter at the command line. No grub comes up to allow me to choose a non-graphical boot, and pressing ctrl-alt-f1 at the blank screen doesn't do anything.

I downloaded the driver from ATI and installed it as root according to their instructions. Nothing unusual from what I could tell.

-EDIT-

I was able to boot in text-only mode from the GRUB but now it will not accept my login and password. It does not help that I am unsure of which login name it expects me to use, since you normally don't have to enter one when you do the graphical boot.

-RE-EDIT-
Did as you suggest, with the same result. A black screen.

[devils casper]

Is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak file blank? Execute this

ls /etc/X11/xorg.*

Post output here.

[juderb]

Sorry about that, a little misunderstanding on my part. Instead of moving xorg.conf I copied it to xorg.conf.backup

So, if I put in:
ls /etc/X11/xorg.*

The output is:
xorg.conf
xorg.conf.backup
xorg.conf.original-0

[devils casper]

Post the contents of xorg.conf file here.

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[juderb]

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

Section "Files"
End Section

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 "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
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

[devils casper]

Check /usr/share/ati folder and if there is fglrx-uninstall.sh file, execute it to remove ATI Driver.

su -
sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh

In case it doesn't work, replace "fglrx" with "vesa" in xorg.conf file.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

[juderb]

Thanks a ton! Your first suggestion worked.

Now, what are my alternatives for getting the driver installed properly?

[juderb]

I'm actually going to start a new thread because there are some new problems coming up when I try to reinstall the driver.