Ubuntu – Error while trying to install ATI/AMD proprietary drivers (post-release update)

12.0464-bitatiproprietary

I tried to install the proprietary driver which is available for my graphics card. There are 2 available drivers; 

"ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)"

and

"ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver".

As the updates most likely were to improve something, I chose post-release updates version. However, when I click "Activate", the installation fails after download. The following message is shown to me: 

Sorry, the installation of this driver failed.
Please have a look at the log file for details /var/log/jockey.log

Full jockey.log is available here: http://pastebin.com/HsZaJXeQ

Is there any way I could get this "post-release updates" working? Or should I try installing the older version?

Best Answer

I had the same problem, in my case reinstall command helped. Paste this in terminal:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates --reinstall

If it doesn't work uninstall FGLRX:

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

Then install driver using terminal:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates

If that doesn't work uninstall everything again and try using official script, just follow those commands:

cd /tmp && wget -O amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip
unzip amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip
chmod +x amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run

Windows will popup and you can start installing drivers. When you finish type:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

and reboot.

The link is for the ATI 12.8 64bit drivers, to get a newer version replace it with a link provided to you by official AMD site, just select your harware.

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