I'm new to Linux and recently switched to Ubuntu 11.04 due to my project requirement. My laptop has been freezing and going to black screen of death when I run anything related to display (Share desktop, stream video, etc). Today I went through the Ubuntu forum to install the appropriate graphic driver and, after doing it, I rebooted my PC. It gave an error before login saying "select the recovery mode" and after clicking OK, it didn't give the same error on reboot but I've lost the 11.04 graphical interface and all I see is the interface of Ubuntu v10 with slow visuals (even scrolling up/down on browser is really slow). For the reference, here's a desktop screenshot so that you can understand the situation. Also the laptop is overheating.
How can I fix this problem? How can i get the Ubuntu 11.04 view back?
I also tried Google, but couldn't find any issue like this.
Some general Information:
Laptop: HP TouchSmart TX2-1160ea
Processor: AMD Turion TX2
Memory: 4GB
OS: Ubuntu 11.04
Some debugging information::
$ report-hw | grep controller
lspci -knn: 00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
lspci -knn: 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
lspci -knn: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
lspci -knn: 08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: 09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
And:
$ dpkg -l '*fglrx*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii fglrx 2:8.840-0ubunt Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerato
ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.840-0ubunt Catalyst Control Center for the ATI graphics
un fglrx-control <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-control- <none> (no description available)
ii fglrx-dev 2:8.840-0ubunt Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerato
un fglrx-driver <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-driver-d <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-kernel-s <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-modalias <none> (no description available)
un xfree86-driver <none> (no description available)
un xfree86-driver <none> (no description available)
un xorg-driver-fg <none> (no description available)
un xorg-driver-fg <none> (no description available)
If you need any more information that could help, just ask.
