I know I'm not the first one to have trouble with amd drivers, but no post gave me an answer for my situation (not even this one).
I have a Dell Inspiron 3537 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit installed on dual-boot (along with Windows 8.1 64bit).
The computer has two graphic cards, an intel one and an amd one. However, Ubuntu isn't using the AMD one. Or maybe it is. I dunno, it's very confusing.
The output of lspci -v | grep VGA
is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus PRO [Radeon HD 8850M] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
So it's there, right? Addition Drivers also says I'm using AMD:
Trying to install fglrx
and using that instead (see above options) results in a low-graphics mode
on reboot. Every time. So I remove fglrx
and everything goes back to normal.
I then tried installing the latest driver straight from amd. No luck there either - after running the installer, I get this message:
So I digged a little deeper. What could be wrong? The driver is supposedly fro Xorg 6.9 and up. So I did Xorg -version
and got this:
X.Org X Server 1.15.1
Release Date: 2014-04-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-61-generic x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux yuvi-zefoPC 3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=e702db78-eac6-4e2a-95ec-1bac547b60f3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Build Date: 30 July 2014 12:21:54AM
xorg-server 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.1 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Wait, 1.15
? Isn't that an extremely old version? Or maybe I'm reading this wrong? Anyway. I'm busting my head here. No solution seems to be helping, and I just can't tell what's wrong. The driver I got was exactly the one for my driver, but it won't install because... it can't find it? What?
Please help. Thanks in advanced.