After the upgrade of ubuntu to 13.10 the performance of my VM has degreased extremely and I think it is because no proprietary drivers seem to be available. The VM runs on decent system (SSD, 4GB ram for the VM, I5 3570) and has worked fine before the update. No third party drivers are beeing offered through the update system (hui).
I have tried several tutorials to install the drivers manually but without success. The 7900 is listed as a supported card at the AMD drivers page and I have tried both the stable and the beta release however without much success. After the last listed tutorial the system boots to the login screen where it returns after entering the password (with a short black screen inbetween). VMWare Here is my Xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.1.log) at the place where the error occurs:
I have also tried reinstalling vmware tools but without any change.
The command lspci -nn | grep VGA
returns VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405]
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Even uninstalling didn't work, so I had to go back to a backup.
So my question is: Is it possible to run the latest catalyst drivers (for the HD 7900) unter Ubuntu 13.10 (inside VMWare)? Should the performance be fine with the open source drivers?