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[ubuntu] fglrx-updates held back

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi I just upgraded through the update manager but i cannot reach the desktop. Apt says the package fglrx-updates has been held back. How do i fall back to the free Radeon driver? I found that fglrx cannot be installed since it depends on a package 'xorg-video-abi-11' but it has no installation candidate. Iam on 64 bit. thanks (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 09/24/2012

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I have recently have upgraded to Ubutnu 11.10 and I have not been able to activate by ATI Radeon Mobility HD5400 driver. I have been able to activate the ATI/AMD propreitary FGLRX graphics driver using the AMD wiki, but I cannot activate the (post-release update) driver.

I have recently have upgraded to Ubutnu 11.10 and I have not been able to activate by ATI Radeon Mobility HD5400 driver. I have been able to activate the ATI/AMD propreitary FGLRX graphics driver using the AMD wiki, but I cannot activate the (post-release update) driver.

I want to use the open source Radeon driver for Ubuntu, but currently I'm using fglrx.

So, I went ahead and purged fglrx using sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* and when I rebooted and ran sudo lshw -c video, I still see driver=fglrx_pci. I've followed the instructions here.

I'm not sure why I can't completely purge fglrx, is anyone else experiencing this?

Hello, When installing my FGLRX-updates driver, I get the following errors and I have no idea what they mean.

No, its not a PowerXpress setup, just try to get the graphics work as mentioned in the installation guide.After the ati-driver way was not successfull I tried it with the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fglrx.I installed the packages from the official repository.When I run aticonfig --initial then I get:Found fglrx primary device section PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib/fglrx&#03

I'm trying to install a proprietary driver from amd and it says that a version of fglrx is already installed and that i need to uninstall it first but when i try to invoke:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx

i get:

[sudo] password for tom: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I'd like to know the version of fglrx installed in my Ubuntu 10.04.3 box.

Error Installing FGLRX driver 40 weeks 3 days ago

My computer uses a Radeon HD 6950.

I have the ATI (AMD) HD7870 graphic card and I had just installed Ubuntu. With the Open Source drivers the desktop works fine; however, since I have a newer card, I'd like the proprietary drivers installed.

However, whenever I install it either from Additional Drivers, or from the AMD's website, I am able to log in, but then compiz immediately crashes and all I see is my desktop background.