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I have used a older version of Ubuntu on another computer just like this one with the only difference being the graphics. This computer has AMD graphics. I've seen post around like this but I tried everything in them and non of the posts answers have got my computer to work. My computer is a HP Pavillion G6, AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.9Ghz, factory default Windows 7, 4Gb of RAM.

I had just installed Ubuntu to run along side Windows 7 from a 16Gb USB. It finished and I turned on my computer and it loaded into the grub loader ( I believe that is what it is called ) and chose Ubuntu. It loaded up, and it came to the log in screen. I logged into my account and there was nothing there. No console, no GUI, nothing but a cursor.

I would open the console but neither of my CTRL keys function on my computer. I can right click on the desktop and create documents and folders though. SO what I did to get to a terminal was to right click->create a folder->go to Computer->go to usr/bin/gnome terminal. Thats how I opened a terminal and I don't know if it will work through that correctly or not but I re-installed Ubuntu desktop and and installed Unity through the console but to no avail.

I don't know what to do and any help would be appreciated. I don't even know if I'm doing anything right.

DanZmodMaker
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You can try the fglrx installation with these steps:

  1. Remove/purge current fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle (If you have used a method outside of aptitude, apt, Software Center or Synaptic, follow the other party's instructions for removal). You will need to deliberately remove both the normal and -updates versions in recent releases of Ubuntu because it seems that attempting to remove one installs the other:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

  2. Reboot.

  3. You may need to install the linux generic headers

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

  4. Install the driver

    4.1. For 12.04:

    sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

    or

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

    4.2. From 14.04 forward, fglrx-amdcccle is included when you install fglrx, so the following will suffice:

    sudo apt-get install fglrx

    or

    sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates

    To install the packages for hardware acceleration along with the driver:

    sudo apt-get install fglrx xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 libva-egl1 vainfo

    or

    sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 libva-egl1 vainfo

  5. Generate a fresh xorg.conf BEFORE REBOOTING!

    sudo amdconfig --initial

    If you are using multiple AMD graphics cards or AMD dual graphics (i.e.: notebook users), use:

    sudo amdconfig --adapter=all --initial

  6. Reboot again.

  7. To confirm the drivers are working open a terminal and type:

    fglrxinfo

    You should get an output similar to the following:

    fglrxinfo 
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6300M Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11733 Compatibility Profile Context

Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

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  • Okay I did this and all that happened was I logged in and did what its been doing. Should I select a different source for the drivers and see what happen? – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 20:53
  • What drivers appears? – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 17 '15 at 20:56
  • My AMD/ATI grapchics. It says its using the recommended drivers with using the x.Org x server, but there's two more options to choose. The video driver for and graphics accelerator from fglrx (properties), or fglrx updates – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 21:03
  • What is selected? Had you tried fglrx driver? Can you post the output of the unity command? – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 17 '15 at 21:06
  • I'm going to say what unity said that I think is important. – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 21:09
  • "Unity is not supported by your hardware. Enable software rendering instead (slow)." It then says "starting plugin: opengl" then "LLVM ERROR: Do not know how to split the result of this operator." – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 21:11
  • Simply copy the command output with Ctrl+May+C, open a new tab on the terminal with Ctrl+May+T and type firefox, then go to askubuntu.com and edit your post with the unity command output – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 17 '15 at 21:11
  • Also when trying to use fglrx it doesn't work and reverts. It says that the package dependencies cannot be resolved. – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 21:13
  • Did you read this: http://askubuntu.com/a/286774/387382? – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 17 '15 at 21:15
  • What package/s is missing? – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 17 '15 at 21:15
  • I don't understand what you mean by which ones are missing. I looked at the page you gave me and it didn't work. Also I cant copy and paste. My Ctrl key don't work. I tried selecting it all but Firefox would not let me paste. I kept right clicking but it didn't work. A lot of Firefox wasn't functioning correctly. – DanZmodMaker Mar 17 '15 at 21:27
  • Ok, I refered to, when you try to enable fglrx, what error got. – 0x2b3bfa0 Mar 18 '15 at 08:27