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 Ubuntu-X, 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1511301/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
