[SOLVED] How to fix very dark screen after boot?

simonsloth · 03-07-2014, 06:18 AM

Hello everyone.

I’ve just installed Elementary on my laptop. After the installation was complete, it worked like a charm.
I made a reboot but after that, I have had a problem. The computer manage to boot the system, but the light turns off, when it comes to the login screen.
If I connect to a secondary screen, I can see everything (on the secondary screen of course). If I look carefully, I can still see the desktop on my laptop’s screen, but it is as if the light has turned off completely.

System specs:

Asus X52J, MB: K52JE
Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz × 4
Graphic: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]

I’m very new to linux, so please tell me, if you need more information (and maybe how to find this information for you).

Is there anyone who can suggest a solution?

widget · 03-07-2014, 12:36 PM

This is marked Solved.

If it is solved you need to provide the solution that you used.

People with the same problem, that know how to use a forum, will first try the forum search engine to see if there are posts for their problem.

This thread will show up marked Solved. They will then, joyously, click on it. They will then be extremely frustrated because there is no solution.

Forums are NOT a selfish venue. Forums are for SHARING information. In particular for sharing solutions to problems.

Please share yours.

ivtec · 03-07-2014, 05:58 PM

i would try to reinstall again, if not try another distro,there are many,some work on some machines some don't,the choice is great,

myself i never loose much time to solve an issue i take more time then if i reinstall from scratch,see, today i installed xubuntu 13.10 had a small bug then i installed Xubuntu beta 1 14.04 and soon i had a great ops working fine, if it doesn't, I'll try another flavoure till i'm satisfied.
but my favourite is always in the Ubuntu range, desktops Ubuntu Gmome Classic in xubuntu Xfce.

simonsloth · 03-08-2014, 02:49 PM

Sorry.
I don't use forums very much and I simply didnt think of the fact that I should reply my solution to the forum.

I found the solution on another forum (askubuntu.com).

The solution is to remove the proprietary driver and use the open-source radeon driver instead.
This is the commands I used:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo shutdown -r now

widget · 03-08-2014, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simonsloth

Sorry.
I don't use forums very much and I simply didnt think of the fact that I should reply my solution to the forum.

I found the solution on another forum (askubuntu.com).

The solution is to remove the proprietary driver and use the open-source radeon driver instead.
This is the commands I used:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo shutdown -r now

Thank you very much.

The next time you have a question, no matter what forum you go to, use their forum search tool. You may well find that someone else has had the same problem and found a solution to it. This will save a lot of time for you and to forum contributors.

Another thing it will do, if a solution found doesn't work for you, is give you information that you can put in your post. This will save someone from posting a possible solution that you have already tried.

I was lucky to have a lot of, mainly self inflicted, problems in the first month of my Linux adventure. Got a lot of hints on how to ask questions and so forth.

Forums are a great source for information and help. Using them takes a bit of time to get used to.

Most forums have some guidance for users. Here are a couple links for such things on LQ;
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Ask_a_Question

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...xQuestions_org

Just about all that is said there applies to all forums. The similar documents elsewhere are also pretty much applicable on all forums.