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[Philippe Lefevre <645566@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I didn't know what was the fglrx package, so when I bought my new video card, I first installed Catalyst 10.8 with Lucid Linx and kernel 2.6.32.23 ... it worked but was a bit buggy (bad 2D display)
When the catalyst 10.9 was out, I installed it. It worked too and it fixed the bugs.
Then I did a kernel upgrade at 2.6.32-24. Catalyst 10.9 was still working.
Later I noticed that the Catalyst control panel was still displaying "Catalyst 10.8".  I then tried to reinstall it to see if it fixed this.
I was unable to do it due to the bug #642518.
Then I applied the patch given by Luc Bruninx (post #14) and rebuild the package. There was no build errors and the patched package was successfully installed but the xserver didn't start anymore. (my own posts #19 to 22)

In the boot process, the framebuffer display is ok (with the ubuntu banner and the moving 5 dots), but when it shift to the xserver it hangs.
Neither any CtrAltFx key or CtrlAltBackspace key are working. The only way is to electricaly stop the box.
I tried many things and in particular, to remove/purge all old fglrx prevously installed following the doc at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver.
I finally uninstall all and reinstalled the official new package with the new patch 2:8.723.1-0Ubuntu5. I still have the same trouble.

So something has probably been removed, or modified when I reinstalled
the package (via synaptic).

I'm running :
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04
  Kernel:           Linux phlsys 2.6.32-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 14:58:24 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  Video card:    ati HD5670
  Packages:

fglrx:
    Installé : 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5
    Candidat : 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5
   Table de version :
   *** 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:8.723.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Packages

fglrx-amdcccle:
  Installé : 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5
  Candidat : 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5
 Table de version :
 *** 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:8.723.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Packages

** Affects: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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x server with fglrx driver doesn't start anymore
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