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I tired out the fglrx driver form Additional Drivers program and they were not what I thought it would be, so I downloaded the drivers from AMD... but when I run the program like this sudo ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run I get this:

[Error]A previous installation of fglrx driver detected to be loaded.
User must uninstall existing fglrx driver 
or run install with force option. 
Forcing the installation is not recommended.

I tried to remove the driver rom Additional Drivers Program again and tried to re-install... still the same message, then I did:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx

Then tried the installer again. STILL the same message. What do I have to do to completely get rid of fglrx???

(P.s I did reboot after every move)

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  • reboot and then try again. If that fails, how did you install the driver the first time ? – Panther Feb 18 '14 at 16:12
  • I had the AMD driver (the one from their site) installed first. Then I wanted to see what the one that ubuntu offers is capable of, so I went in additional drivers program and installed the driver from there. When I saw that it wasn't better than AMD's I did the steps above. removed and then tried to re-install. btw too late for the reboot and stuff. I already forced it and now it's worse. It starts up with a warning that it runs in a low graphics mode. Any ideas? Or should I install ubuntu from scratch? (To be honest that seems easier than all this trouble) – Not Amused Feb 18 '14 at 17:04
  • First, remove the driver using apt-get as you have. Next run the uninstall script. sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh . See also http://askubuntu.com/questions/68306/how-do-i-remove-the-propretary-ati-drivers But in general, never "force" anything (apt-get or otherwise) unless you know what and why you are doing so. – Panther Feb 18 '14 at 17:25

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I do the installation a bit different. You could try this:

# Add the installer script it its own directory. For example amddriver
cd amddriver

# Create deb packages for precise (12.04) or quantal (12.10)
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise

# Force overwrite the older packages with the new ones
sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i *.deb

This works for me for removing:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
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