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Installing the ATI Catalyst Drivers for 12.10
Important UPDATE (22nd October 2012)
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 ...
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For 13.04:
Pre-Install:
Three terminal-commands:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6
sudo apt-get install dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic xserver-xorg-core libgcc1
Additional two terminal-commands for 64-bit:
sudo apt-get install ...
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For 12.10:
It works for me!! And here is the how-to which I created for you:
Pre-Install:
Three terminal-commands:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6
sudo apt-get install dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic xserver-xorg-core libgcc1
Optional ...
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I haven't tried it yet but I found this PPA.
The latest fglrx that supports pre-HD5000 GPUs, is Catalyst 12.6 Legacy.
But it doesn't support Ubuntu 12.10 from what I have heard. I am also concerned about this as I want to update to Quantal but fgrlx is a must have for me. I still don't have Quantal so I could not test it. Test it at your own risk.
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I suggest two things
1 In a terminal type the following
fglrxinfo
This will tell you if fglrx is installed and working well you should see an output similar to:
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11399 Compatibility ...
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Installing the ATI Catalyst Drivers for 13.04
These instructions will install Catalyst v13.4, in order to see what is the latest available driver visit the Official AMD Website
Unsupported Cards
Cards that no longer can make use of AMD Catalyst drivers and are limited to open-source drivers:
ATI Radeon 9500-9800, Xpress200-1250, 690G, 740G, X300-X2500, ...
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After using amdcccle to set the monitors as required, apply and exit, then from System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution [or Monitors in Debian], verify it is showing the resolution you configured in amdcccle and click apply.
The next time you restart or login the settings will be preserved.
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For the purpose of this question: Catalyst = fglrx = proprietary AMD/ATI display driver
The most problems people are having come from the fact that:
1. Ubuntu has moved to newer driver versions, that don't support some older ATI/AMD chips
2. Ubuntu has moved to newer Xorg versions
Symptoms:
No. 1 - 'not supported' errors / Jockey not detecting proprietary ...
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I don't use a 4xxx series card but there is a new PPA available for the purpose you describe.
instructions here: http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/10/how-to-install-amd-catalyst-legacy.html
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I have a Vaio VPCSE with AMD/Intel hybrid graphics, too, and I followed your how-to step by step. Unfortunately, when I changed to integrated graphics in Catalyst, I got lost after login just as you desribed. When changing to discrete graphics, it works – but I can use fglrx from the sources for that.
So my only workaround, which I'm not quite happy with, ...
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So here is the answer on my question.
There is no more display settings in AMD Control Center. Now all display settings are in System Setting->Display, which make sense, cause all displays settings are kept separate of the driver - they are driver-independent.
The problem with resetting display settings after every reboot does not connected to the absence ...
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Same problem here, with Ubuntu 12.04TLS amd64, on a AMD A10 with integrated AMD Radeon HD6670 video and a AOC 23" monitor connected via HDMI.
I had the same monitor on a 32bit 12.04TLS Ubuntu on a much older AMD CPU and its integrated video card, and the screen used also a part of the panel, but changing the DTV settings in Catalyst Control Center solved it ...
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You just need to open AMD Catalys Control Center as admin.
To open it, start terminal and run:
sudo amdcccle
Edit settings and make them however you want, save after that. Close Control Center, close terminal and reboot your PC. Settings should be saved and remembered after boot.
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I also found this to be the case when trying to get the sis 671 video driver to work. I installed Mint 14 and then Ubuntu 12.10 and couldn't get it to work. After reading numerous posts on forums I installed 12.04 which was definitely supposed to work but it didn't. More reading lead me to realize Xorg 1.13 is the problem which now appears to be what gets ...
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I had a terrible experience with this "amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run" under Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit last week. After "successful" installation and reboot, my computer got stuck at the stage of starting X. Luckily I had made a backup of my Ubuntu partition with Clonezilla. If you're lucky, it might work under Ubuntu 12.04, but just in ...
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I had a similar problem which I solved quite easily. Although I've a different video card it might works for you.
I've set an .xprofile file in my home directory with the following content:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768 --primary
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS1
I think the lines are quite self explaining and you could ...
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In order to install Catalyst 13.4 please refer to those instructions:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Raring_Installation_Guide#Installing_Proprietary_Drivers_a.k.a._Catalyst.2Ffglrx
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This answer was provided by Tom Rakoncátlan who as a new user cannot answer this protected question, so I have posted it here on his behalf.
Solution is described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
Quote: "If you experience underscan when outputting video to an HDTV, this may resolve the issue:
sudo aticonfig ...
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The latest ATI catalyst for Ubuntu 12.10 I know of is this one:
AMD Catalyst 12,9 driver
First Uninstall the current driver AMD with these commands:
sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx
Manual installation:
To install AMD Catalyst 12.9 in Ubuntu ...
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Resolve the problem and correctly instalation Catalyst. It is a Bug.
First if you have instaled drivers pls unistal them. After this enter comand.
sudo apt-get install linux-source
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic
After this install driver from System settings/software resources/additional drivers and select AMD graphicks accelerator
...
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actually, every Ubuntu's repositories doesn't always provide new softwares in their server. Because Canonical retests and evaluates all new softwares versions that will enter into repos for ensuring the softwares is 100% compatible with Ubuntu versions.
If you want to get the latest versions, you could download from official website software distributor. ...
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I took the risk of uninstalling Catalyst using the procedure described here.
After Catalyst had been removed, I could install all the upcoming updates. The open source drivers handle the graphics card with dual view very well.
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I think the problem is the instructions you used specifically this line
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg
Ubuntu/oneiric
You state you are running 12.04 Precise but the instructions you used are for oneiric Ubuntu 11.10.
Please review the accepted answer to this question for the correct method to install catalyst on ...
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Here is the correct way to remove the ATI drivers:
sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
Note: ignore any errors you may have got form running the first 2 commands.
Remove your xorg.conf file
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Re-install xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ...
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I have a 5450 driver, which works well with two monitors using either the standard open drivers or the proprietary drivers - even off the liveCD.
What happens when you try to uncheck the "Mirror Displays" checkbox with the standard driver? Make sure both monitors are switched on using the sliding switch under the displays in the middle, and the ...
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I am a user of a very similar card, with a fully functioning Ubuntu set up with Catalyst aka fglrx.
You want Catalyst 12.9 out of the repositories i.e. what Ubuntu suggests in the Software Sources part of the Software Center. Don't go for earlier versions and don't go for more recent versions. You will also want to install linux-headers-generic.
If you ...
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I would strongly suggest you make sure that you have followed the advice in the askubuntu community wiki for this which is here:
Ask Ubuntu ATI Community Wiki
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This should be kind of fixed in Ubuntu 12.10.
There are a couple of other bugs, though, so you might want to follow the instructions here:
Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
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