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Jordan
Asked: 2012-01-30 12:01:17 +0800 CST

AMD 11.12 driver issue

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I followed the steps letter by letter in this post... Gnome 3.2 problems in the shell

However I have come to a problem that I don't know how to solve... It is saying that package build has failed and it could not process the .deb file. I would like to install this as it increases performance of Unity. I have an ATi Mobility HD4250 Graphics Card. I also have been using the drivers that came out of the box with Unity, didn't install the ones from the Additional Drivers list..

my terminal

Now after all of that, it says it can't open the driver installer. enter image description here

Ok now with this new driver installed, everything appears to be choppy... It didn't do that with the drivers that came in Unity. I thought these were supposed to be an improvement?

drivers

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are missing some packages to be able to build your drivers, please install them before trying to rebuild the drivers again. Open a terminal and type

    sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases

    After these are installed you can then execute sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/oneiric to build the packages and sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb to install them.

    Please make sure that any old version of the drivers is already removed from the system

    sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*

    will remove any previous installed versions at the moment in your system, dont worry if they give faults, just move on.

    For a complete step by step guide on how to remove / revert / install the AMD driver visit this post

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  2. I think you might find this thread useful

    "I tried having the installer install directly as you suggested (sh ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run) and it seems it's worked fine! Thanks!"

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