LINUX LITE 7.2 FINAL RELEASED - SEE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION FOR DETAILS


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Won't boot into desktop after idiot (me) changed something
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Hello All

I’ve been an idiot and messed up my Linux Lite installation. I was attempting to reduce a screen tearing issue and, after googling, typed in these commands;

sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
echo -e ‘Section “Device” Identifier “Radeon” Driver “radeon” Option “TearFree” “on” EndSection’ | sudo tee /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amd.conf
sudo reboot

The problem is that the PC now doesn’t boot and ends up with a black screen and flashing curser. The article above says that if I want to reverse this I can run the following command;

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amd.conf
sudo reboot

Trouble is that I can’t get to a command prompt now to run the command which I think is just deleting the 20-amd.conf file.

I have removed the hard drive and plugged it into my laptop which is also running Linux Lite. I can get to the correct directory but the drive is read only so I can’t delete the offending file.

Please can someone help, it’s not the end of the world if I have to do a complete reinstall but I’m sure there must be a way of removing this file.

Many thanks
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Won't boot into desktop after idiot (me) changed something - by acanning - 10-31-2019, 03:36 PM

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