Need advice: I can't install an ATI driver to save my life!
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:29 pm
Greetings,
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read into my problems.
Well, I started using Linux Mint 14 64 bit cinnamon today. I'm having some serious issues installing an ATI driver for my Radeon HD 6770. I don't know what I am doing wrong, I can only suspect xorg. Mainly because I don't have it, and not by choice lol. I've been reading into it. I see some people using it with mint, where other people say to use something like xranda or x randy. Its something close to that. So right now I'm using the generic driver, I have a dual monitor setup and running. After the ATI driver installation. When I reboot, Mint loads up. The monitors go into mirrored mode and now the task bar is white and the menu is now somewhat like a Windows start menu. When I uninstall the ati (given the tuts below) reboot. It goes back to normal cinnamon.
These are the best tutorials I found, I was referring to while I attempt to install:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/w ... vers-fglrx
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74171/is ... -in-ubuntu
These are the drivers (Well, I tried both to rule out faulty new drivers):
v12.10 http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l ... ng=English
v12.08 http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/w ... 6&rev=12.8
To my understanding there are 3 methods people can use to install ATI drivers with Linux. .run, .deb or an automated package like jockey-gtk(additional drivers). I've tried them all! Though I was confused about the .deb. Not the unpacking bit, but to which .deb I should install. Or all of them. There was 3 packages in total, 2 seem to have the same name and the other had amdcccle in the name. Last time I tried I installed all, I figured a warning would inform me and this info wasn't in the tut.
But when I run sudo aticonf -initial -f after the installing. When I check the file, there is some text from ATI saying it created the file because one didn't exsist. No parameters, just a simple comment. SO I NEED XORG, right? Well I ran sudo apt-get install xorg and I don't know what is happening but I still can't find the xorg.conf file. I'm really lost.
So thank you for your advice. Please don't hesitate to ask,If you need any additional info or images. I don't know what information is required for diagnosing something like this. I will re create and post pics tomorrow as somewhat late for me. Promise. Please get me off of Windows!
Your truly,
-E--D
(Links: large image res)
Before:
http://i.imgur.com/AFXHX.jpg
After:
http://i.imgur.com/FRXGd.png
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read into my problems.
Well, I started using Linux Mint 14 64 bit cinnamon today. I'm having some serious issues installing an ATI driver for my Radeon HD 6770. I don't know what I am doing wrong, I can only suspect xorg. Mainly because I don't have it, and not by choice lol. I've been reading into it. I see some people using it with mint, where other people say to use something like xranda or x randy. Its something close to that. So right now I'm using the generic driver, I have a dual monitor setup and running. After the ATI driver installation. When I reboot, Mint loads up. The monitors go into mirrored mode and now the task bar is white and the menu is now somewhat like a Windows start menu. When I uninstall the ati (given the tuts below) reboot. It goes back to normal cinnamon.
These are the best tutorials I found, I was referring to while I attempt to install:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/w ... vers-fglrx
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74171/is ... -in-ubuntu
These are the drivers (Well, I tried both to rule out faulty new drivers):
v12.10 http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l ... ng=English
v12.08 http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/w ... 6&rev=12.8
To my understanding there are 3 methods people can use to install ATI drivers with Linux. .run, .deb or an automated package like jockey-gtk(additional drivers). I've tried them all! Though I was confused about the .deb. Not the unpacking bit, but to which .deb I should install. Or all of them. There was 3 packages in total, 2 seem to have the same name and the other had amdcccle in the name. Last time I tried I installed all, I figured a warning would inform me and this info wasn't in the tut.
But when I run sudo aticonf -initial -f after the installing. When I check the file, there is some text from ATI saying it created the file because one didn't exsist. No parameters, just a simple comment. SO I NEED XORG, right? Well I ran sudo apt-get install xorg and I don't know what is happening but I still can't find the xorg.conf file. I'm really lost.
So thank you for your advice. Please don't hesitate to ask,If you need any additional info or images. I don't know what information is required for diagnosing something like this. I will re create and post pics tomorrow as somewhat late for me. Promise. Please get me off of Windows!
Your truly,
-E--D
(Links: large image res)
Before:
http://i.imgur.com/AFXHX.jpg
After:
http://i.imgur.com/FRXGd.png