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| − | == Method 1: Installing Breezy's Included Driver (8.16.20) ==
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| − | The fglrx driver supports Radeon 8500+ and the X-series cards (see [https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1176 release notes]). When running the dpkg-reconfigure commands you can accept the defaults whenever you aren't sure.
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| − | === Installing the driver ===
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| − | ''All Platforms:''
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| − | <pre>
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| − | sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
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| − | sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) #Okay if it is already installed
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| − | sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg #Select the fglrx driver and 64-bit users should deselect int10a
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| − | </pre>
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| − | ''64-bit users:''
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| − | You have to downgrade to an older version of libdri.a due to an incompatilbity with the ATI drivers. [http://mail3.mpr.org/mlomker/libdri.a.gz Download it here]
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| − | Change to download directory:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | gunzip libdri.a.gz
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| − | sudo cp /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a libdri.a.old
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| − | sudo cp libdri.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
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| − | </pre>
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| − | If you wish to revert to any non-fglrx driver you will need to copy the libdri.a.old file back over the fglrx version.
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| − | ''All platforms:'' Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart your desktop.
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| − | === Confirm that it works ===
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| − | <pre>
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| − | $ fglrxinfo
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| − | display: :0.0 screen: 0
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| − | OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
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| − | OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
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| − | OpenGL version string: 1.3.5272 (X4.3.0-8.16.20)
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| − | </pre>
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| − | === Troubleshooting ===
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| − | If you have a widescreen LCD display that is stuck at 1024x768 then it is probably the bug in the 8.16.20 driver that was fixed in 8.18.X (see the next section).
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| − | The output of '''dmesg | grep fglrx''' and /var/log/Xorg.0.log are most useful when looking for errors.
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| − | == Method 2: Generating/Installing Ubuntu packages for the newer 8.20.x drivers ==
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| − | '''Important Warning:''' Installation of this driver requires removing the restricted-modules package in order to work. That package includes drivers for madwifi (Atheros wireless cards), nvidia cards, and a handful of other devices. I provide a work-around for the madwifi drivers, but you need to perform it before removing the restricted modules (jump to end of this this post).
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| − | When running the dpkg-reconfigure command you should answer the questions that you know and take the defaults for the rest. You might want to say ''no'' to the monitor detection--it has caused X-Windows to crash for some people.
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| − | === Remove existing fglrx driver ===
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| − | Remove Breezy's included drivers if they are installed:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx
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| − | sudo apt-get remove fglrx-control
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| − | sudo apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)
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| − | sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg #select the "ati" module
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| − | </pre>
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| − | Reboot.
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| − | === Installing the new driver ===
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| − | Download the ATI driver installer: [https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27 Click here]
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| − | ''All Platforms:''
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| − | Change to the download directory. Make sure that you have the ''universe'' and ''multiverse'' repositories enabled before doing these steps. [http://mail3.mpr.org/mlomker/sources.list Sample sources.list]
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| − | <pre>
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| − | sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4 module-assistant build-essential
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| − | sudo apt-get install fakeroot dh-make debconf libstdc++5 gcc-3.3-base
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| − | sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.21.7-i386.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/breezy
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| − | sudo dpkg -i ./xorg-driver-fglrx_8.21.7-1_i386.deb
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| − | sudo dpkg -i ./fglrx-control_8.21.7-1_i386.deb
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| − | sudo dpkg -i ./fglrx-kernel-source_8.21.7-1_i386.deb
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| − | </pre>
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| − | ''Compile the kernel driver:''
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| − | <pre>
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| − | sudo module-assistant prepare
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| − | sudo module-assistant update
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| − | sudo module-assistant a-i fglrx
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| − | </pre>
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| − | ''Update the xorg.conf file:''
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| − | <pre>
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| − | sudo aticonfig --initial
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| − | </pre>
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| − | ''All platforms:'' Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart your session.
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| − | === Confirm that it worked ===
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| − | <pre>
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| − | $ fglrxinfo
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| − | display: :0.0 screen: 0
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| − | OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
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| − | OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
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| − | OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.20.8)
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| − | </pre>
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| − | === Troubleshooting ===
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| − | ==== General ====
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| − | Look for error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and kern.log.
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| − | ==== Madwifi Drivers ====
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| − | In order to continue using the [http://madwifi.org madwifi] driver you can do the following '''before''' removing the linux-restricted-modules package and rebooting.
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| − | sudo cp /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/volatile/ath_hal.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/
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| − | sudo depmod -a $(uname -r)
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| − | </pre>
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| − | ==== Kernel module not working after upgrade from previous version with same kernel ====
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| − | I manually built this driver as described back when 8.18.8 was released. Once 8.19.10 got released, I followed the same steps to rebuild. Unfortunately every time the kernel module was built, it wanted to remove it because it couldnt satisfy the xorg fglrx driver 8.18.8.
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| − | I looked in /usr/src/ and saw a deb file that I was assuming was being rebuilt. I followed these steps to properly rebuild:
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| − | sudo rm /usr/src/fglrx-kernel-*
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| − | sudo module-assistant a-i fglrx
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| − | </pre>
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