Monday, July 3, 2017

14.04 - AMD Catalyst installation




I did a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 but I can't install Catalyst. When I try to install the driver it displays an error that there is no compatible adapter. I tried it with the stable and the beta driver. Any clues?




First, check your graphics card name and chipset:



sudo update-pciids #optional command, requires internet
lspci -nn | grep VGA


It should report something like this for your graphics card:



01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4550]



then to check whether your graphics card is fully supported of not check this page on the Ubuntu help wiki.




Unsupported Chips
For the very latest cards, open-source driver support is not always instant. The following cards require a newer version of the driver than what's found in Ubuntu 13.04/Raring's repository, but should be supported by the time Ubuntu 13.10/Saucy is released.



OLAND               Radeon HD 8xxx series
HAINAN Radeon HD 88xx series

RICHLAND Radeon HD 8xxxG series



I should say that in newer versions of Ubuntu you don't need to install catalyst control center as it's installed by default and if you try to install a catalyst driver 90% of time you would lose your desktop and taskbar and you'd need to purge fglrx and restore the default version of Ubuntu xorg or fgrlx driver.



installing catalyst control center :



run these commands in terminal




sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic


after that open Software Center and type



legacy catalyst control
or




click on more and click on amd catalyst legacy .



and install fglrx catalyst control center .



Removing:



First go to software & updates and remove ppa:makson96/fglrx or try :



sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:makson96/fglrx

sudo apt-get update


Then:



sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*


Note: ignore any errors you may have got form running the first 2 commands.




Remove your xorg.conf file



sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Re-install xorg



sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 xserver-xorg-core



Configure xorg



sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


Reboot:



sudo reboot



Try this for newer kernel :
http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install


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