Ubuntu Technical
Ubuntu technical problems and solutions reference, a modern cookbook.
Install ATI official drivers in Ubuntu
Posted by on November 20, 2011
I find myself pretty often installing or re-installing my official ATI drivers for my video card. So here is a safe guide which will guide you through all the steps.
For a 64 bit system, install this first:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Run each of these, one at the time, if getting any faults ignore it.
sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
Remove your xorg.conf file
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Re-install xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 xserver-xorg-core
Configure xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Reboot:
sudo reboot
After the reboot all the fglrx packages will be gone, you will be using default ones.
Download the newest ATI driver (current version is 12.1)
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run
Once downloaded go to the file location and set it to run as executable
cd /path_of_the_file chmod 755 amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run
Use these steps to install
sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/oneiric sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
Once the driver is installed you need to start up a new xorg.conf file with this command
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Reboot
sudo reboot
Advertisements
Everything goes ok until I type sudo aticonfig –initial -f.
It says
sudo: aticonfig: command not found
What shoud I do? 😦
Hi there.
You should try to reinstall the driver, by first uninstall fglrx as stated above. Further info can also be found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
I know it may be late now, but I have updated my post, due to the fact that I myself have experienced bad behavior while upgrading to 12.1 driver. Maybe it helps;
Well I’m trying to install it now at openSUSE, which uses gnome 3.2 and used to have problems with the ati official driver (flickering and stuff). Since i’ve just installed the OS, I will pass the first steps, because i havent installed any driver before 🙂
When I type “sudo aticonfig –initial -f” I keep getting “aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
“. Im running Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit with an ati radeon Xpress 1100m.
Your card, being an older one, is not supported by Catalyst driver. On this link you can check the ATI cards supported and their associated drivers: ATI drivers for Linux.
Your card supports this driver: Radeon (Catalyst Legacy & Open Source)
cheers
I followed your article till removing drivers and reboot, after which I got blank screen after grub menu. I tried recovery option from grub as well. But, the screen just does not show off i.e remains blank. i tried removing the ‘quiet splash’ option and then I tried removing the vga=’some value’ option as well. But it remains blank.
Now what to do? I’m not getting any screen only
Thank you, this just saved all my hard work from the past month or so.
Glad to help 🙂
I’m no longer certain where you are getting your information, but good topic. I needs to spend a while learning much more or working out more. Thanks for fantastic information I used to be searching for this info for my mission.
You are welcome.
Oh my gosh thanks so much!!!
great tutorial.. it saved all my work…
thanks bro #bighug
you are welcome 😉
you are the best!!!
Thank you so much 😀
You saved my day after upgrading Linux Mint 16 cinnamon.
I got this error after upgrading too to the newest ATI graphics driver and doing sudo aticonfig –initial -f : “error while loading shared libraries libgl.so.1 cannot open shared object file”
I forgot to repack the whole to .deb with Ubuntu/saucy 😀
there were several linking problems with 32 and 64 bit.
no it works with still the best tutorial in 2014!
I am happy I was able to help out 🙂
I personally find myself coming back to this post often, and it always saves me a lot of headache.
Pingback: install & remove amd catalyst drivers & control center @ linux | tripux