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I am using a Lenovo G510 with an Intel integrated card and a Radeon R7 M265 discrete card. Ubuntu version is 14.04 trusty while the kernel is 3.13.0-46-generic. I've spent quite a few hours trying to make Radeon to work and at this point I am close to giving up. I tried to use the proprietary fgrlx drivers but I wouldn't be able to boot, if I don't boot and I try to run amdconfig it says that no supported adapter was found and I even tried to use vgaswitcheroo without success. I just don't know what's wrong at this point and I would really like to solve this issue so that I can do some OpenGL work without resorting to switching to Windows. Any help is much appreciated!

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  • I am not into ati tech but these tutorials must be good https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD – JoKeR Mar 03 '15 at 17:23
  • @JohnnyEnglish Thanks but these are not something that I haven't tried. – Veritas Mar 03 '15 at 17:31
  • so you did try this topic 3.2. Manually installing Catalyst 13.4, special case for Intel/AMD hybrid graphics ? Usually manually installed Catalyst did the trick as I recall. – JoKeR Mar 03 '15 at 17:35
  • @JohnnyEnglish I tried but the driver for my card was on a deb file of apparently not debian format. No installer. – Veritas Mar 03 '15 at 18:05
  • If I attempt to install the deb files provided with the the generic Linux32&64bit package, I get fglrx conflicts with ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 and the installation fails – Veritas Mar 03 '15 at 18:28
  • take a look here http://askubuntu.com/questions/540780/14-10-wine-and-fglrx-conflict there's a fix from David Jones. There's always a way to come it around when installing drivers not provided by Ubuntu a lot of conflicts may happen and you have to drop them or blacklist them. I faced similar issues for the first time I was installing drivers to my Nvidia but on the way you learn it. :) – JoKeR Mar 03 '15 at 21:02
  • simplier way is to remove fglrx at all, when I'm installing video drivers I remove everything that relates to video including Ubuntu native video drivers) you just have to know after that how to behave with your videocard. And it works.:) – JoKeR Mar 03 '15 at 21:08
  • @JohnnyEnglish what's interesting is that all questions about ocl-icd-lipencl1 are about wine while I don't have wine installed. – Veritas Mar 03 '15 at 21:44
  • it's not about Wine as I said it's about fglrx conflicts. Like in the first answer said: try to install Wine without fglrx then substitute (Wine) with what you're doing. Don't get curious about Wine it's about fglrx. – JoKeR Mar 03 '15 at 22:47
  • @JohnnyEnglish Thanks for your help! Unfortunately no matter what I do I get errors like this one: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-updates_2%3a13.350.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/acpi/fglrx-powermode.sh', which is also in package fglrx-updates-core 2:14.201-0ubuntu2.1 – Veritas Mar 03 '15 at 23:45
  • You have to purge fglrx, check this it has to solve it http://askubuntu.com/questions/588742/packages-are-broken-with-unmet-dependencies-cannot-install-fglrx – JoKeR Mar 04 '15 at 10:33
  • @JohnyEnglish I had already purged fglrx at that point. – Veritas Mar 04 '15 at 20:39
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Veritas Mar 04 '15 at 23:03

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Using mesa this should work, but i do recommend to upgrade to the latest ubuntu release or use the updated oibaf drivers PPA and probably also update the kernel using the latest from here, but both mesa and the kernel have improved a lot in the last few years for the 3D support and fixed many problems

Finally check this for the direct usage of each GPU

higuita
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