I've just installed Linux Mint 10 (branch of Ubuntu 10.10) on my new Thinkpad W500 last night; everything appeared to be going smoothly until I activated the fglrx hardware drivers (for the FireGL V5700 Mobility GPU card) via the hardware devices panel...
Now on restart the GUI refuses to launch and instead boots me into the text console - I can login and such but haven't thus yet figured out how to launch the desktop (although since I am relatively new to Linux so I may just not be familiar with the command to do this); 'startx' gives me an error along the lines of "there is no compatible display"...
How do I get the desktop to launch with the proprietary drivers... or, if I need to deactivate these from the console how do I go about doing this?
Searching the web (and these forums) doesn't bring up any immediate answers... was runtime switchable graphics support on the Thinkpad laptops ever successfully implemented?
Thanks!
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Lenovo Thinkpad W500 / Linux Mint Julia
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 / 6GB PC3-8500
ATI FireGL V5700 512MB
80GB Intel SSD
Now on restart the GUI refuses to launch and instead boots me into the text console - I can login and such but haven't thus yet figured out how to launch the desktop (although since I am relatively new to Linux so I may just not be familiar with the command to do this); 'startx' gives me an error along the lines of "there is no compatible display"...
How do I get the desktop to launch with the proprietary drivers... or, if I need to deactivate these from the console how do I go about doing this?
Searching the web (and these forums) doesn't bring up any immediate answers... was runtime switchable graphics support on the Thinkpad laptops ever successfully implemented?
Thanks!
__________________
Lenovo Thinkpad W500 / Linux Mint Julia
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 / 6GB PC3-8500
ATI FireGL V5700 512MB
80GB Intel SSD
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