blank screen after installing ati drivers in fedora 12

[yoit]

i installed fedora 12 on my pc and I also installed the ati drivers from ati

and i rebooted and booted back in fedora all i get is a blank screen that does nothing

help...

graphics card: ati radeon hd 3600

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

How did you install ATI Driver?

Boot up Fedora in Single User Mode and rename xorg.conf file.

cd /etc/X11
su -c xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

Reboot machine

su -c shutdown -r now

Fedora will use Generic Display setting as it was using at fresh installation.

[yoit]

i did the installation by the driver

sh ./ ati-driver-installer
support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx]Graphics Drivers & Software

i got it from here

i got the 64-bit version of fedora

[yoit]

Question:

how do i login to single user mode?

[devils casper]

Isn't there an option in GRUB Menu to boot up in Single User Mode?

Highlight Fedora title in GRUB Menu and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line and press 'e' again. Add <space> 1 at the end of line and hit 'Enter' key. Press 'b' and Fedora will boot up in command line mode.

Highlight Fedora title -- e -- select kernel line -- e -- type 1 -- hit Enter key -- b

[swerdfigera]

I've been at that point for a while now myself.

uninstall is (as root):
cd usr/share/ati/
sh fglrx-uninstall.sh
shutdown -r now

At least it will let you back to X on restart.

I don't think it has to do with the Xorg.conf, because I've tried the default resolution that originally worked before I installed the driver, and even with that it still boots up to a blank screen.



I myself have an HD Radeon 4350...ATI/Radeon thing maybe?

PS: There's 201,000 hits on google for "ati linux drivers black screen" (without quotes)
on google...seems to be a problem a lot of people encounter.