I was in Ubuntu 20.04 when the screen just froze, and while the mouse still worked, nothing else did.
Nothing works except starting in safe mode. System always freezes within a few minutes.
I've tried updating to the Ubuntu 20.10 (first release beyond the latest LTR), have tried updating various drivers, am seriously eyeballing going back to Mint at this point.
output of lspci | grep "VGA":
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
Output of sudo lshw -C display:
*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fcde0000-fcdeffff ioport:dc00(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] (Secondary)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.1
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fcdf0000-fcdfffff
The last thing I tried was:
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates
and I got the following error (which happens a lot with solutions I'm seeing proposed):
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package fglrx-updates
Many of the articles appear to be 4-6 years old, so I highly suspect their root cause is different from mine.
I'm a noob, so listing commands and what output(s) to look for to triage further would be appreciated. Happy to get rerouted to an "already answered" link that actually works.
