installing my Graphic Card on ubuntu12.04

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I have a HP Pavillion G6 series 1225, i5 laptop with Radeon HD 6470M switchable VGA. i installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but the VGA drivers don't work properly. I want to install drivers into the Ubuntu. But when I do it arrived error message like this:

sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

I found a solution in a link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930450

It works for a few steps and then in the installation of the package of the AMD driver, a message pops up 'fatal error' and it redirects me to Ask Ubuntu to find a solution, please help me, I need to make it work.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/60121/support-on-hp-pavillion-g4-1004tx-with-intel-amd-hybrid-graphics — Uri Herrera, Jun 14 '12 at 01:10
you should be fine with this : [solution]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/what-is-the-correct-way-to-install-ati-catalyst-video-drivers-fglrx/126513#126513 — radislav, Mar 12 '13 at 23:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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I successfuly installed the ATI drivers following this answer.

This answer explains:

how to uninstall the driver that failed
install the open source driver (it is a temporary step)
download the last driver on ATI web site
and install it

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

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answered Dec 06 '12 at 22:26

Boris

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

I used these instructions by using a custom compiled driver by a good community member. It's working for me on Ubuntu 12.10 with an HP envy with a radeon 7690, and maybe it could work for you

sudo apt-get purge fglrx*

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrikos/xserver

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

sudo apt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg-video-intel

sudo apt-get -y install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

Instructions were found at the end of this thread

installing my Graphic Card on ubuntu12.04

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