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[SOLVED] Mint 16 with ATI 6530D booting to black screen

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I have an ATI 6530D graphics card. A couple of months back I installed Mint 16 as a second distro to my Xubuntu 13.04 and got the notorious booting to a black screen problem.

None of the the usual and well documented methods did anything other than vary the size of the font in the boot sequence.

I have eventually got it working, so in case it's useful to anyone else, this is how I did it. (Not all my own work, it's based on a combination of things I found on the net and other forums)

  1. Boot up and when the black screen appears, press some of the cursor keys and a box appears with an X server error.
  1. Press CTRL + ALT + 1 to get a tty terminal.
  1. Log in as root. The password is your own password that you set during installation.
  1. Remove the Xorg drivers. 
 apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  1. Reboot
  1. Repeat steps 1-3

apt-get update

  1. ```

8. ```
apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle-updates

aticonfig --initial

  1. ```

10. Reboot.

All being well, you should now boot up into the Mint desktop. 

As Mint 16 is based on Ubuntu Saucy, then there's a chance that this might also work if you're strugging with a Saucy installation.
#2

The above also works for Ubuntu 14.04

#3

This also works for Linux Mint 17. If you boot the install CD with the 'Compatability Mode' option, you won't get the black screen and you can just open a terminal and enter the commands - no need to reboot after purging the X drivers either.