Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Amd driver (fglrx) for ubuntu 12.04.5LTS


Begginer here.


I recently downgraded my Ubuntu to 12.04.5LTS because I wanted dual monitor support but my hd4870 cant support AMD drivers and stuff.


Once I downgraded it and tried to install the drivers something like "one or more tools required for installation are not on this system" or something.


I looked online and tried a few solutions but none of them work like.
I don't remember all that I did but these are among them.


Install headers, 32bit lib.


Log


Check if system has the tools required for installation.
fglrx installation requires that the system have kernel headers. /lib/modules/3.13.0-61-generic/build/include/linux/version.h cannot be found on this system.
One or more tools required for installation cannot be found on the system. Install the required tools before installing the fglrx driver.
Optionally, run the installer with --force option to install without the tools.
Forcing install will disable AMD hardware acceleration and may make your system unstable. Not recommended.



You can not install fglrx-legacy drivers, because Ubuntu 12.04.5 has too new Xorg stack.


You can downgrade Xorg by running


sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg-input-all

You also need to downgrade kernel too. This can be done with


sudo apt-get install linux-generic

Then you will need to boot with kernel 3.2 using grub menu. After that remove all 3.13 kernels using Synaptic.


Then legacy drivers may be installed by


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy

After that you will be able to install legacy AMD drivers that support your video card.


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