Cinnamon crashed after removal of graphics card

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jack0987
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Cinnamon crashed after removal of graphics card

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I am using linux mint 17 cinnamon. (can not use mint 17.1 at present tme due to hardware issues.)

When I removed my amd r9 280 graphics card, on restart I got the message:

"Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in fallback mode."

Is there a way to now correct this?
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Re: Cinnamon crashed after removal of graphics card

Post by kelebek333 »

You can try to back to open source driver with following commands.

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sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

sudo rm -rf /etc/ati
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Re: Cinnamon crashed after removal of graphics card

Post by jack0987 »

Thankyou. Your reply appears to have corrected the problem.

From my faulty desktop I had to type CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a terminal screen.

Once at the terminal screen, it wanted me to log in.
I entered my user name and password, but that failed.
I found out that since my password contained numbers, they had to be entered from the keyboard and not the numerical keypad.

Each command seemed to work until I got to the next to last - sudo mv /etc/x11/xorg.conf /etc/x11/xorg.conf.backup

I got the error "no such file or directory"

I ignored this error and executed the last command which appeared to be done without error.

I then typed CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot the computer and all now seems well.
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Re: Cinnamon crashed after removal of graphics card

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Each command seemed to work until I got to the next to last - sudo mv /etc/x11/xorg.conf /etc/x11/xorg.conf.backup

I got the error "no such file or directory"
So, you did not create a configuration file with following command for fglrx driver.

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sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Above command automaticly creates a conf file named xorg.conf in /etc/X11 directory.
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