Latest proprietary AMD Catalyst driver version 12.9 cannot be used with Ubuntu 12.10 If you have a AMD Radeon HD 2xxx-4xxx series card.
Drivers for these cards are now available in a separate branch called legacy series. Unfortunately these legacy drivers (version 12.6) have not been updated to work with Ubuntu 12.10.
I'm using a Quantal AMDx64 install and a XFX Radeon HD5850 video card. I first enabled restricted drivers through additional drivers, but it resulted in breaking Unity and Compiz (I can only see my wallpaper and shortcuts. But the terminal still works and Nautilus too, however, without Close/Maximize/Minimize and slower). Then I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal.
I followed this link
Correct Way to install the graphic card drivers
The link seemed to work fine, as I was able to install the drivers; but with following issues"-
I wasn't able to run this command:-
sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
I was also not able to run this command:-
debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases
But I am able to run fglrxinfo and
AMD has recently dropped support for cards in series HD 2xxx-4xxx. Catalyst drivers for these cards are now available in a different branch, called Legacy series. Legacy drivers won't receive any new feature updates from AMD.
Proprietary fglrx drivers for these legacy cards are not compatible with Quantal.
My computer has an AMD Radeon HD6890 graphics card, and when Precise was running I had installed the proprietary drivers from AMD's website. After I updated to Quantal, Ubuntu would not detect my monitor's correct resolution, among other things. I went back on AMD's website to see if there were updated drivers and found some.
I have an older discontinued (and legacy) Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Graphics Card.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed and upgraded. I noticed lots of packages with -quantal suffix (kernel, xorg stack, drivers, etc.), which is included in 12.04.2 upgrade. How to easily upgrade all of my installed packages to *-quantal equivalent?
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed "Quantal Quetzal", 12.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Hello. I have 12.04.1 x86-64 installed and now I want to upgrade to 12.04.2 with LTS Enablement Stack. How to upgrade all my installed packages to their *-quantal version if there is any? I do not want to search them and upgrade one by one or install full xserver-xorg-lts-quantal metapackage with all drivers. Is that possible?
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