I have an ati HD4850 card, ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
To begin with, after a fresh install, i installed fglrx drvers from system -- additional drivers, according to fglrxifo everything was alright, but the system was running on vesa:sem.
After that, i have reinstalled and installed drivers according to many tutorials, but still got that problem.
one of the tutorials was here: What is the correct way to
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?
Fresh install of 12.04
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
'Additional Drivers' shows ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver, and ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) as not installed. ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver says it installs successfully when I try.
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 and when I went to install the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers, I was given three choices:
ATI FGLRX -post release update
ATI FGLRX -experimental beta
Experimental AMD binary Xorg driver and kernel module
I installed first the post release update, but when I went to additional drivers it stated the driver is activated but not currently in use.
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.
I can't seem to successfully install ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post release updates).
Ubuntu 11.10
ATI All In Wonder video card
I have attached screen shots of System Info - Additional Drivers, and jockey.log
I've searched Google and Ubuntu forums but can't seem to find anything that applied to my problem.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Cheers,
Bill Roberts
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.
Currently ubuntu 12.04 LTS contains the AMD driver FGLRX 8.960-0ubuntu1.1, however if one wants to try out Valve's Steam in the Wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve it states that one should update the driver to the experimental package.
Well I am kind of reluctant to enable the experimental packages (by enabling the pre-release repository) because it might also upgrade other packages that work fin
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.
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