Ubuntu – Ubuntu 15.10 stuck on booting after installing proprietary amd graphics drivers

I was not using the same graphics card, but I was able to install the BETA AMD drivers on 12.10.

Main Instructions

However, I had a few issues, so here were my modifications to the steps given in the 12.10 section.

• Purge Items per instructions (from the 12.04 LTS section)
• Install Dependencies (from the 12.04 LTS section)
  • MODIFY sudo apt-get install ia32-libs; those libs didn't exist. I went to the package manager and found ia32-libs-multiarch that are mentioned in the 64-bit section; I am 32bit. I didn't install from command line.
• MODIFY, I didn't do the WGET or chmod on the 12.6 version shown in the steps, I went to AMD's site and downloaded the BETA drivers. (Follow link in the second COMMENT from "thelastshadow").
• Ran commands to install/reboot.

Do everything in that second link, I rebooted with new drivers, then ran the script to uninstall the watermark. So, all the right steps are here and answered, just have to jumble them up a bit! BTW, the 12.6 and the 12.10 drivers DID NOT work for me. I had to uninstall them and follow the same steps with the beta drivers and they worked fine. I did the steps exactly as shown using the 12.6 with the wget and didn't have success.

Hope that helps!

Your GPU is still has some support (in Ubuntu 12.04 and newer) from Nvidia as part of their legacy driver set.

The Nvidia driver version 173 are packaged for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 - http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/nvidia-173 which supports your GPU - http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/71303/en-us

Though they are legacy drivers they will receive occasional updates for compatibility and bug fixes - http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html.

If you want full support you will need an 8 series or newer, which I don't think any were ever made with AGP (unless some special OEM versions).

Hopefully someone can provide details about ATi GFX cards (which I have only limited experience of in Linux).