[xubuntu-users] 15.04 Not Booting To Desktop After AMD Site Driver Install?

[JMZ]

Hi Jesse,

What card are you running?  Most amd/nvidia cards will work just fine 
with one of the repository nvidia drivers.  The video card I'm using is 
a nvidia GeForce GT 720.  Runs fine with nvidia-331 (in fact, running 
three monitors fine.)  Lots easier to apt-get a driver than try a 
non-free alternative.  Non-free, commercial drivers are difficult to 
install because you'll have to lower the runlevel in order to load the 
commercial driver.  Then there's the issue of conflicts with residual 
legacy drivers on the system.  Going the commercial driver route is a 
real PITA.

Jordan

On 06/08/2015 08:08 PM, Jesse Palser wrote:
> 15.04 Not Booting To Desktop After AMD Site Driver Install?
>
> Hi,
>
> I need help!
> I installed Xubuntu 15.04 64Bit successfully.
> After reboot I successfully updated Xubuntu.
> After another reboot I downloaded the new AMD Linux display driver 
> from AMD site and installed it.
>
> My problem now is that I can no longer boot into desktop?
> When I cold boot it gets to the encrypted LVM passphrase enter screen 
> & keyboard input is not working?
> When I warm boot I get the GRUB menu, I hit [e] and delete "quiet 
> splash" and hit [F10] to boot
> but it gets stuck after some initialization text is shown?
>
> How can I boot into a desktop on 15.04 with new proprietary AMD 
> display driver?
> Thanks! and great O.S.!
>
> Jesse
>