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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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Press the super key and search for terminal...
and activate it ...
Now type or copy/paste these lines one by one (so pressing enter after each line):
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run
the 1st 2 commands will show nothing when executed. The last one will ask for your admin ...
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1 - Download Catalyst 13.4 from AMD site (previous versions will not work).
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
2 - Install 32 bit libraries, type the following command on terminal:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
3 - Install kernel headers, type the following command on terminal:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
4 - ...
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It's a known bug for about a couple of weeks. The kernel in 13.04 is buggy. Solutions are to use a newer kernel or an older kernel. Hopefully this will be fixed soon; there will be many people affected by this (like everyone using Ubuntu to drive a media PC).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1169761
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This issue exists since Linux 3.0
"Due to some people having blank screens linked to the HDMI audio support in the open source Radeon driver, HDMI audio is now disabled by default. However, if you used the HDMI audio before upgrading to Linux 3.0, you'll notice your sound doesn't work anymore.
To re-enable HDMI audio, in /boot/grub/menu.lst, add this to ...
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Have a read through this as it it's very complete
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Raring_Installation_Guide
You should be able to get everything working by carefully following the instructions. Though I'd follow all of the un-installation steps first to get your install back to the open source drivers and in a working state before trying again.
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I have the same APU, but in a Desktop. I'm really not much into gaming, but a friend of mine is, and also an AMD fanatic. He installed this Driver on my machine, and it works like a charm. Keep in mind that this is still a beta driver.
Also you can visit this page, for fixes, and enchantments that are available in this driver.
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My Vaio VPCSA had a similar problem.
I replaced a line in /etc/defalut/grub (1):
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video.allow_duplicates=1 radeon.modeset=1"
It fixed the problem for Ubuntu 12.10. However, that's not enough for Debian/unstable.
In addition, I had to add a line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (2):
blacklist radeon
And to /etc/rc.local BEFORE exit ...
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There is a kernel boot parameter tweak you can try for getting the backlight brightness to be adjustable.
To see if the tweak will work without making any changes try:
echo 2000 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
In terminal, if the brightness changes then the tweak will work.
To use the function keys to change it:
Run this in a ...
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I am one of the few who also use an HD 5800 card (5830) with Ubuntu in a dual screen configuration. I had the exact same problems as you when I started, and wracked my brains trying to solve it with very little response from the forums.
Several months later I am hanging in there, and managed to solve the problems well enough, but I still lack the ability ...
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