AMD Catalyst installation [duplicate]
Solution 1:
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 The following cards require a newer version of the driver than what's found in Ubuntu 13.04/Raring's repository, but should be supported by the time Ubuntu 13.10/Saucy is released.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