Tuesday, February 14, 2017

installation - System hangs installing 13.10 with AMD R9 290X graphics card



Trying to install Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy salamander) on a new desktop pc with an AMD R9 290X graphics card hangs on the 'dots' screen. All the dots light up but nothing happens. How do I resolve this?



I resolved this by plugging my monitor into the onboard graphics of my motherboard, installing Ubuntu and then following the manual instructions for the catalyst driver (section 3) here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI




Note: replace references to raring with saucy.



Once everything was installed I was able to reboot and switch the display over to my R9 290X card.


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