Unable to get screen signal after purge FGLRX

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Published on 2011-11-27T21:54:30Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 2:03 UTC
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I thought that my ATI driver was not running well so I wanted to re-instal it completely. I did:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon

and after a boot I wanted to intal the ATI driver BUT at the boot no more signal to my screen.

Since, every time I turn on my PC it gets to purple screen and then screen shuts down !

Note that:

  • Even if the screen is off, PC seems to be running almost well: I m still able to use my network to access data shared with NFS.
  • Using live USB I have no screen problem.
  • I tried to plug my screen on an alternative output but it did not work.
  • I tried CTRL+ALT+F1 while being on purple screen but it does not do anything, screen shut down anyway.
  • I m going to try the SHIFT thing and learn from blackscreen wiki...

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