Fglrx broken after fu* update

Software & Operating Systems Linux
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Hello everyone! This is a little story about a surprises in ubuntu linux. Today as always i surfing in the internet, watched some videos, read some news and etc...Suddenly i decided "Hey, i didn't updated my ubuntu for a long time, let's update! " and i'm execute a command sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y . All the packages has been downloaded and installed, also was downloaded and installed a new kernel, when i decided to reboot my system to apply the updates. After reboot i seen my display turning on and turning off(2 sec periodicity), i can't to run a terminal, nothing is responding. When i booted from my usb livecd and start searching the internet to solve my problem it take a little time and i see an information about my problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1479913 but this bug is not solved yet and i'm sad about it.
Moral of the story: GOOGLE EVERY FU*ING PACKAGE, EVREY FU*ING LIBS BEFORE YOU FU*ING UPDATE, BECAUSE A PACKAGE IS NOT TESTING BEFORE PACKAGE PUSHED TO THE FU*ING RELEASE.
IF YOU HAVE A AMD(ATI) CARD, DO NOT UPDATE, THIS UPDATE SCREW YOUR LIVE.
I'm done.
Thanks for reading my cool story.

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fglrx is the amd driver right? Have you reinstalled the driver?

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fglrx-core 2:15.200-0ubuntu4.1: fglrx-core kernel module failed to build
[FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
'pci_ignore_hotplug']
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Rollback the kernel? Or see if there is a newer driver available that addresses that issue

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thats ubuntu for you.

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Many things i did and that didn't help me. No new drivers is available right now.

Thanks

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why are you using fglrx over the open drivers?

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You cant use open drivers "over" the fglrx.

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Let me rephrase that. Why arent you using the open drivers instead of the fglrx drivers?

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Because with a OD you can't play games normally and you cant run a photoshop without bugs.

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OD?

I assume you mean photoshop though a virtual machine? Have you tried the latest drivers? They support opengl 4.1 now.

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wine works too...

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OD - Open Drivers
I tried multiple ways, through a virtual machine, through wine i used the latest drivers and bugs was annoying..

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With the exception of one or two games (for the moment) almost all my games work well with the open drivers. this is especially true with the latest update.