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Asked: 2014-02-19 07:24:42 +0800 CST

Can't get rid of "previous version of fglrx" and installing AMD's drivers fails

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I tired out the fglrx driver form Additional Drivers program and they were not what I thought it would be, so I downloaded the drivers from AMD... but when I run the program like this sudo ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run I get this:

[Error]A previous installation of fglrx driver detected to be loaded.
User must uninstall existing fglrx driver 
or run install with force option. 
Forcing the installation is not recommended.

I tried to remove the driver rom Additional Drivers Program again and tried to re-install... still the same message, then I did:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx

Then tried the installer again. STILL the same message. What do I have to do to completely get rid of fglrx???

(P.s I did reboot after every move)

12.04

1 Answers

  1. I do the installation a bit different. You could try this:

    # Add the installer script it its own directory. For example amddriver
cd amddriver

# Create deb packages for precise (12.04) or quantal (12.10)
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise

# Force overwrite the older packages with the new ones
sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i *.deb

    This works for me for removing:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
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