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I just upgraded to 14.10 from 14.04, and the built-in driver for my ATI Radeon HD 5450 sorta-kinda works okay because I do get a signal on my monitor, but it lacks any kind of acceleration, making the Dash and the menu reallly slow, and even typing this post has a significant keyboard-to-screen lag. What's more, the built-in drivers don't seem to support screen standby, so the monitor stays on forever :-/

I've tried several*) methods of getting proprietary drivers to work, but they all fail the same way: the boot simply ends at tty1 instead of going into the graphical mode.

Is the root cause that no 14.10-compatible driver exist? Or is there a "canonical" method that is proven to work, for ATI, on 14.10? (pun intended...)

As far as I understand the matter by now, the problem seems to be that 14.10 uses X server version 1.16 but all the drivers only mention X server 1.15...

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*) Methods I've tried:

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  • run sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati . see here version is 1.17
    – user308564
    Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 12:32
  • @DuminduMahawela thank you. When should I run that - before or after I install any of the above drivers? Which of my bullets would you recommend? I can't tell the difference.
    – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
    Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 13:15
  • It is xserver xorg driver. You dont need to install from the above. just run this in command line.
    – user308564
    Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 14:21
  • Thanks again @DuminduMahawela - why not put this as an answer I can accept? I'll try it out and hope for success :-)
    – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
    Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 17:46
  • @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun Did the upvoted answer fix your issues?
    – Dan W
    Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 16:13

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You can Install Xserver Xorg driver in command line. You dont need to install from the Software & Update.

Just run this in command line

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

See here at packages.ubuntu.com. Version is 1.17

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Well things have changed since the release of Omega driver which have support up to version 1.16 of X. Head to AMD website to download the driver.

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  • Tried, but didnt work :(
    – mac
    Commented Dec 27, 2014 at 12:37

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