Changed my hardware from Nvidia to AMD in PC pretty much for gaming on my windows install. But now i have booted back into Ubuntu and its taking a hissy fit at the change of hardware.
I want to remove all types of drivers, X11 configs, EVERYTHING. Then start from scratch. I have been un-installing and reinstalling drivers for past couple of days with no luck of getting catalyst running successfully.
Any help would be great thanks alot.
Bill
Right here goes on how I fixed this.
After uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers multiple times, it wouldn't successfully install the catalyst drivers without some form of issues.
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
This removed all the AMD drivers or what was left from previous installs.
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current
Both of these commands then removed what I had from Nvidia drivers.
I then rebooted and instead of installing the AMD drivers from apt-get I used the additional drivers in the system menu. They installed fine and i rebooted again. And boom! They were there.
The thing was I had tried using the additional drivers option before only for it to fail. but not to bother it worked and im now using the latest drivers. I made a complete hash of this one and its not a great solution but a solution nevertheless.
Thanks Bill
apt-cache search nvidia-*or use Synaptic and search for nvidia then uninstall. – Uri Herrera Jul 31 '12 at 20:50