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Asked: 2011-08-02 04:26:58 +0800 CST

Upgrade ATI Catalyst Control Center

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Twice now an upgrade of the proprietary ATI Catalyst driver has been a major pain, even with the help of excellent guides.

These commands all run successfully (as in $? -eq 0):

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* \
xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper \
debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 \
dh-modaliases # Already installed
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs # Ditto
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/natty
sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb

After a restart it crashed during the graphical boot phase. Restarted in safe mode, and restored the old configuration:

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf{.fglrx-N,}

Now it boots, and goes straight into the correct video mode, but the version number shown in CCC still says 11.5!

Tried uninstalling the drivers, and noticed some warnings:

dpkg: warning: while removing fglrx, directory '/usr/lib32/fglrx' not empty so not removed.
dpkg: warning: while removing fglrx, directory '/usr/lib/fglrx/etc/ati' not empty so not removed.
dpkg: warning: while removing fglrx, directory '/usr/lib/fglrx/etc' not empty so not removed.
dpkg: warning: while removing fglrx, directory '/usr/lib/fglrx' not empty so not removed.

Tried to install without generating the packages:

sudo sh .../ati-driver-installer-11-7-x86.x86_64.run

It says the packages are still installed! Verified with the following command:

$ apt-cache pkgnames --installed | grep fglrx
fglrx
fglrx-dev
fglrx-amdcccle

What can I do at this point? I even tried to remove the /usr/lib32/fglrx and /usr/lib/fglrx directories, but that didn't help.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I know when I have reinstalled fglrx I have usually done what you have done but slightly differently as I have usually had to go back to the open source versions for a while.

    I found this guide to be really helpful

    Ati Ubuntu Wiki

    However this worked for me last time and got rid of pretty much all of the ati/fglrx stuff left on my pc

    sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)


sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

    As a further measure I also check what else is left 

    dpkg -l '*fglrx*'

    and 

    locate fglrx

    I also make sure I have a correct set of open source drviers installed

    sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon 
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

    I then rebuild the the proprietary fglrx/Catalyst driver to be installable through the Restricted Hardware Driver Manager (a.k.a. jockey)

     sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases

    After these have all been completed I reboot and now the open source drviers are working AND xserver-xorg has bene rebuilt I reinstall fglrx

    sudo apt-get install fglrx

    That seemed to do the trick last time.

    Let us know how you get on

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