looks like purge flgrx reinstall did the trick. screen finally looks and behaves normally. HAPPY DANCES
however sound is still completely gone. that's what sent me in the first place to try the open source driver that crashed everything .. did search through ask ubuntu and found people with different machines all having similar problems with system wide sound issue and no solutions so far. my sound works fine in my windows partition so it's not a hardware thing. is sound a fglrx thing? is this yet a different bug? thanks everyone for your help and all the ubuntu gods for software creation and sorting bugs and such. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511301 Title: Failed to upgrade fglrx from 14.502 to 15.200 on Trusty. Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fglrx-installer source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Status in fglrx-installer-updates source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Bug description: SRU Request: [Impact] Upgrading from the upstream fglrx driver packages to the packages in the Ubuntu repository fails because the /etc/ati directory is a real directory instead of being a link (which was common in the Ubuntu packages). [Test Case] 1. Install the fglrx driver (14.502) in Ubuntu 14.04 generating deb packages from the AMD installer 2. Upgrade the package to the current ubuntu release. 3. Check the apt-get output Expected results: the fglrx module should be updated correctly. Actual results: The update fails as described below. [Regression Potential] Low. The change only affects a migration from a specific release. ______________________________________ Note that the fglrx 14.502 package name is fglrx_14.502-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb, which is from AMD's site, not from Ubuntu repository. Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:22930): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk- pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory This likely means that your installation is broken. Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time being. Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.26+nmu4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ... (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:23024): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk- pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory This likely means that your installation is broken. Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time being. Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ... Processing 1 changed doc-base file... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb Log ended: 2015-10-22 05:31:11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1511301/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
