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I followed this HotTo and changed the package to the newest one AMD offers. It all loaded correctly, but in the end the driver wouldn't run. I see others have success, but as I looked through the comments, I see that someone with an OS and kernel similar to mine couldn't get it working either. Is this a problem with the kernel and porting support, or should I look for something else?

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@Alvin, I have a similar problem with my Radeon HD4890 on 12.04 LTS /3.5.0-26. The OpenSource driver is working, but the Card is noisy. I have found this link in askubuntu, but yet not tried by myself (lucky about system is running)

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation_Guide

May it helps, good luck!

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  • I read it, too. My display still works and has basic functionality (size), but nothing else. I run an ATI HD4350 display card. I may try a couple things on this page later. – alvin Mar 23 '13 at 15:08
  • @Somber Soul, I followed your launchpad-link and it works pretty fine for me. Thanks a lot! – Tim Mar 24 '13 at 16:06
  • I tried this method and got the same result as the original HowTo above, i.e. goes to 'laptop' display with one single resolution available. I have some broken packages and unmet dependencies with xorg. – alvin Mar 26 '13 at 16:46
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Try https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx for Radeon HD 3xxx and 4xxx

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  • Thanks for the reply, not sure about adding someones ppa w/o knowing who they are or anything about them. However, this is the type of solution I was looking for and was expecting, just would like it in Canonical supported repos. – alvin Mar 23 '13 at 15:06
  • Understand you) Ok, the problem is with your X-Server version, you need to downgrade it. If you don't wanna use this PPA, you could find other way to do it. X version 1.12 is right what you need. – Somber Soul Mar 24 '13 at 17:26
  • I got your ppa, but it didn't help me yet. I loaded it per your concise instructions and all went well, but I really don't know how to proceed after that. So what I did was go back to the original HowTo above and started with the section following driver removal with this line:./amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run --extract driver. Then I saw a syntax error on line 4, "wget" where the error said something wrong with the "0" operand like "not found" or "not command" and I didn't know how to go from there so just proceeded down the list and everything else seemed to work, it never loaded – alvin Mar 24 '13 at 19:42
  • Ah, could you send me .logs? Because it's really difficult to understand something what you can't see) – Somber Soul Mar 24 '13 at 23:00
  • I solved this problem on Ubuntu 12.04 and trying to come up with it on Raring Ringtail (beta) right now, and it's really hard, because of kernel version. I passed 12.04 but solution should be same... Try to remove proprietary driver if any and install legacy driver. Make sure you got linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal. Also check out this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/993427 – Somber Soul Mar 24 '13 at 23:15
  • I loaded linux-headers-generic-its-quantal, I had it already but updated it. with Synaptic. I closed the terminal so how to find logs? I will do it again tomorrow. Yes, I did know to uninstall any versions of proprietary drivers - I used the HowTo above, the 1st part also used it to restore ubuntu provided as I had driver broken and it went to "laptop' mode only on this desktop. Thanx for all your help, Soul. – alvin Mar 25 '13 at 05:45
  • I can send you logs such as dmesg, but I don't know how, files too big to post here. – alvin Mar 25 '13 at 11:24
  • You can send them via mail: gov@e-mail.ua – Somber Soul Mar 25 '13 at 15:44
  • that's pretty old link from 2012, older than the original HowTo and much older than catalyst 13.1 which is brand new. Somber Soul, I sent you dmesg output, did you get it? – alvin Mar 25 '13 at 20:08
  • Yeah, thanks. Could you send me output of lspci | grep -i VGA too, pls? I installed the same OS (Ubuntu 12.04; 3.5 kernel) – Somber Soul Mar 25 '13 at 21:28
  • Somber Soul, just sent the output asked for. – alvin Mar 26 '13 at 00:23
  • Well, I don't know. You downgrading x-server, because legacy drivers won't work with x-server 1.13. Then you installing fglrx-legacy, which patched to work with kernel 3.5. Then you restarting your PC to apply changes. In details: You should add PPA to downgrade your x-server sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx Then upgrade to apply changes: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Then you installing fglrx-legacy, which should be already be patched to work with kernel 3.5 version: sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy And rebooting your PC. – Somber Soul Mar 26 '13 at 16:30
  • If this didn't work, you must find working patch to fix this. – Somber Soul Mar 26 '13 at 16:35
  • yes, this is what all the HowwTo are saying, but it isn't working. I tried the other answer on this page, with the result of winding up with "laptop" mode with one resolution choice. xorg not working, unmet dependencies. So I removed the driver, but couldn't load because of dependencies problem. I bet I'm missing a critical library somewhere. – alvin Mar 26 '13 at 16:54
  • Somber Soul, I reloaded Ubuntu 12.04.02 with the same image used before, this time I didn't encrypt the home folder initially, which I had done previously. It loaded the driver as expected and now is enabled and appears to be working trouble free. I had tried several times before trying your solution with the old installation and maybe some critical files may have been missing or corrupted. It may have been that I didn't execute this line of code: sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases – alvin Apr 05 '13 at 19:02