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A general question: If I think I've added wrong apt-repository and installed wrong GPU drivers, what I should do?


About my situation: I have Kubuntu 19.04 and AMD R9 280X (HD 7970/8970). Because I had some graphic issues I tried to (re)install drivers.

I found another askubuntu question and I followed step-by-steps. One package was missing while following steps, so I started to install it but then I noticed the missing package (what I already started to install) was GDM3 (GNOME Display Manager). I saw my mistake, and removed it.

I know, "check first what you are installing". I'm still new with these stuff...

Now I afraid I've done something wrong so my system will not properly boot or I get other errors after restarting my PC. So I wanted to ask some tips from you guys before doing more damage (if I even made any).

My GPU related apk-repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-disco.list
graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-disco.list.save
oibaf-ubuntu-graphics-drivers-disco.list
oibaf-ubuntu-graphics-drivers-disco.list.save
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-mesa-bionic.list
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-mesa-bionic.list.distUpgrade
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-mesa-bionic.list.save
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-pkppa-bionic.list
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-pkppa-bionic.list.distUpgrade
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-pkppa-bionic.list.save
paulo-miguel-dias-ubuntu-pkppa-disco.list

The correct apt-repository what I think I need is ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa (stable).

sudo lshw -c video shows driver=radeon which (I think) is correct

sudo lshw -c video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:27 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff

I tried to grep installed packages, but I don't know (and didn't find) a suitable command for this.

Simon Sudler
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