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Installing video driver

Asked by Adrian Arsene

Hello,

I was trying to install the latest video driver for my ATI card. I did download the appropriate .deb file from the manufacturer webpage, however when trying to install it, the ubuntu one software center brings up an error message " Conflicts with the installed package 'ocl-icd-libopencl1'. The reason why I`m trying to do this is that apparently my Ubuntu does not see my 2gb of Vram and it's using up my RAM memory when gaming. Any hints? Thanks !

note, obviously i`m a novice user for Ubuntu, recently switched from Win8.

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Adrian Arsene (adrian-arsne91) said : 		#1

managed to sort it out

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Navarre Ginsberg (navarre-ginsberg) said : 		#2

How? I'm having the same issue. Thanks.

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Adrian Arsene (adrian-arsne91) said : 		#3

I had previously downloaded the microsoft compatibility pack and wine from the app store, apparently it is not compatible with the driver, the once the requested dependencies were uninstalled, i got to install the driver but it did not work out as I planned, my OS started acting up, had to revert the changes

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Navarre Ginsberg (navarre-ginsberg) said : 		#4

I figured this out, (finally!) but changing my driver, start to finish, took around 7 hours. Here's what happened, and what I did:

- Ubuntu installs with the open source driver. Fine. I couldn't set the correct resolution for my second display, and so I figured switching to the proprietary would help.
- I went into 'Software & Updates' and tried switching. When I hit apply, it thought for a second and then reverted. Some internal error.
- The driver I was trying to install was located in the package 'fglrx', so I used apt-get and tried to install it. It couldn't because there were dependencies it couldn't install.
- I tried installing the dependencies manually. No dice. The errors there were nasty (I don't remember them, but I didn't think I could fix them) so I gave up on apt-get.
- I tried installing the original package again with aptitude. It had a planned solution of removing the package ubuntu-desktop, so that wasn't going to cut it either.
- Then I went and downloaded the driver (catalyst) directly from the website, unzipped it, and ran the shell executable that came with it. After a while, it spit out the install directory and 4 .debs.
- I tried to dpkg the debs, which failed. Reading the -i output, 'fglrx-core' was failing due to conflicting with current packages, and everything else failed when 'fglrx-core' was gone.
- I opened the 'fglrx-core' deb in the Software Center. It was conflicting with 'ocl-icd-libopencl1'.
- I didn't really want to delete 'ocl-icd-libopencl1' since it was part of the current driver, which was mostly working, but it looked like if what I did didn't work I could apt-get it back, so I went ahead and blasted it.
- Retried dpkg with the debs. It worked!
- I ran 'sudo aticonfig --inital' to repopulate the X config file (which does automatically create a backup, so you don't actually have to do it manually)
- Restart. Scariest part, since who knows if either my original or new driver will work.
- Ran 'fglrxinfo' and got back a message that made sense. Checking back in 'Software & Updates' it said I was using the driver I wanted to be using.

Final note: This website https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD was extremely helpful, and provides more detail on most of the issues I faced.