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I removed the AMD Driver, and now Ubuntu won't boot

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http://askubuntu.com – I wanted to replace the old driver that comes from the "Additional Drivers" window with the newest ATI Catalyst driver. I tried installing Catalyst, but it said I had to remove the old driver, so i did. I tried again, but it still said the old driver was still installed, so i figured a reboot might solve the problem. Now I can't boot back up. I can't even get to the purple screen. Once it goes past the BIOS screen, the monitor goes into power save(No video stream). (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 03/03/2012 – Made popular on 03/03/2012

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