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I have installed these AMD drivers for my HD 5770: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx

When I launched Steam it threw me an error that something was wrong with OpenGL, told me that performance may suffer and let me proceed. After that I attempted to download CSS, but because it was slow and didn't exit I force killed the "steam" process. After I reboot the PC I get the login screen, which I can log in from but when logged-in I get no Unity, no Dashboard etc etc. Only my desktop background, the mouse pointer. I suspect the problem may be with the drivers displayed above, how could I remove those drivers?

EDIT: When I boot to guest mode (I can't bring up the terminal on normal account because of different layout) and launch CCSM it tells me when I enable the Unity plugin that it needs to also enable OpenGL(asks me that twice) and some other plugins.

EDIT 2: Whenever I try sudo apt-get purge fglrx I get told that the package does not exist.

Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers

I've tried the answers here but none of these help.

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I had a very similar problem (unrelated to steam, but the fglrx drivers after upgrading to 13.04)

The solution, for me, was as follows:

Login, and press CTRL+ALT+T to bring up a terminal.

sudo apt-get purge fglrx

Then reboot. Login again after the restart, and put the following into a terminal window:

gsettings reset org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/ active-plugins

It took a while to actually run for me (maybe about 5 or 10 minutes, can't remember for sure) but eventually unity came back.

Hope this is of some help.

EDIT: Just noticed your bit about problems with the terminal. If the terminal window doesn't come up for whatever reason, try CTRL+ALT+F2to open console mode - log into your account to run the command there. Hopefully that'll work as a fallback.

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