Method one:
Installation of the fglrx Driver from the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Repositories
The easiest way to install binary drivers is to use the built in Hardware Drivers manager in Ubuntu.
In Ubuntu 9.10, this is found under System->Administration->Hardware Drivers.
After the fglrx driver is installed. Reboot your system and login. To check whether the fglrx driver is working, open a Terminal and type:
fglrxinfo
If fglrx is installed and working well you should see output such as:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.2.9232
Here a ATI Radeon 4600 series graphics card has been used for the purposes of illustration. The actual details such as OpenGL version etc. may also be different.
Method 2(incase method 1 does not work)
Install the fglrx Driver from ATI Catalyst 10.3 For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
Before you go about installing the fglrx driver from ATI Catalyst 10.3 do read:
Terms and Conditions.
and
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_103_linux.pdf
1. First, check whether your ATI graphics card is supported by ATI Catalyst 10.3. Click on
Graphics Drivers & Software. Choose either Linux x86 or x86-64 depending on whether you are using Ubuntu 32 bit or Ubuntu 64 bit. In this HowTo an amd 64 Ubuntu 9.10 installation will be chosen for illustrative purposes.
2. Then choose your graphics card type e.g. Radeon, Mobility Radeon, Integrated/MotherBoard etc.
3. Choose your graphics card series e.g. if you have ATI Radeon 4670 then you should choose ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series. If your ATI graphics card series is not listed it means that ATI Catalyst 10.3 does not support it. Stick to the open source driver.
4. Enable the "Source Code" repository from the Synaptic Package Manger.
Install the ATI/AMD proprietary fglrx graphics as described in the previous section, if it is not yet installed. Reboot your system.
5. In this HowTo the ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card will be used for illustrating the method.
6. Choose your ATI Garphics card (in this HowTo ATI Radeon 4670) from the list available as per points 1, 2 and 3 above. Then click on GO!
7. Navigate to and Click on Download to download the file:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/920...inux/ati-driver-installer-10-3-x86.x86_64.run.
8. In this HowTo, the .run file will be saved to the Desktop. The location of this file will be \home\abc\Desktop. Here "abc" is the assumed username. Ensure that there is no other file saved to the Desktop.
9. To change to the directory where the .run file has been downloaded, open a Terminal and type:
cd /home/abc/Desktop
To check the .run file is actually located there, type at the Terminal:
ls
And you should see "ati-driver-installer-10-3-x86.x86_64.run" in the list of files displayed.
10. In the Terminal type:
sudo apt-get update
On a standard desktop install of Ubuntu 9.10 you may also need to install the QT4 libraries. To do this type:
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
This is not necessary if you are running Kubuntu or have already installed the libraries.
11. In the Terminal, to create the deb files, type:
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic
If it is required a package manager window will open and install some dependencies and after a while create the following 6 deb packages in the desktop:
a. fglrx-amdcccle - Catalyst Control Center for the ATI graphics accelerators
b. fglrx-kernel-source - Kernel module source for the ATI graphics accelerators
c. fglrx-modaliases - Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver
d. libamdxvba1 - AMD Unified Video Decoder library
e. xorg-driver-fglrx - Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
f. xorg-driver-fglrx-dev - Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators (devel files)
12. If you wish you can read fglrx-installer_8.702-0ubuntu1_amd64.changes to know the changes that have been effected through ATI Catalyst 10.3 and related information.
13. If you are using a 32 bit installation of Ubuntu 9.10 then you will see these 6 deb files with i386 in place of amd64. In other words the deb files that correspond to your architecture are automatically created.
14. To install the created deb files, type in the Terminal:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
15. In case any of the packages are broken then open **Synaptic Package Manager** and click on **Fix Broken Packages** from the **Edit** option of the main tab. In case you are new to Ubuntu, broken here means that some dependent packages are not yet installed. Once you sort out the issue as indicated above through the Synaptic Package Manager, the problem of broken packages should be resolved.
16. Now "libamdxvba1" is optional but since it provides some aspects of the AMD Unified Video Decoder it may be of some use.
(
Unified Video Decoder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
17. While still in the terminal, type in:
sudo aticonfig --initial
18. Close the Terminal and reboot the system.
19. If all is right, the fglrx driver that corresponds to ATI Catalyst 10.3 i.e 8.702 will be installed and working on your system.
20. To confirm the drivers are working open a Terminal and type:
fglrxinfo
You should get output similar to the following:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.2.9232
If you see any mention of "MESA" in the output, the fglrx drivers have not been installed correctly.
