Installing AMD drivers on Linux Mint 12

[DIDLilGirls]

Hello, is there a way I can install AMD drivers in Linux Mint 12 without the desktop getting glitched? Here's the issue I mentioned viewtopic.php?f=18&t=98897&p=563155

When I installed the AMD drivers (from Mint's Additional Drivers) for my ATI Radeon 5670, I got graphic glitches such as glitchly characters but when I installed it on Ubuntu 11.10, there was no glitches. Is there a possible way to avoid the graphic problem on Linux Mint?

[selittl]

First purge the drivers you installed via the additional drivers route. Then install via apt-get.

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sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver

should install the basic proprietary drivers. reboot, and then

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sudo apt-get install fglrx-control

. reboot again. You should then have the catalyst control and drivers working.

You should also check out: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... 7s_site.29

[grumpypenguin]

Unfortunately, the latest (April 25, 2012) build of ATI/AMD's proprietary "Catalyst" drivers for Linux is DOA. I've tried installing them on Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04, LMDE 201204, Linux Mint 12. The procedures simply don't work at all. The Catalyst Control Center refuses to have any effect on the settings, while its Administrative version refuses to even start. They're completely broken. Oh, and there's no way you can build the .deb files for LMDE, because it doesn't recognize it as any Debian version. You know what? I'm ditching this laptop and I'm switching to NVIDIA. I've had enough of AMD's shenanigans. If they can't be bothered to write drivers that work properly on Linux, I can't be bothered to buy anything that has their GPUs in it.

[TBABill]

http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/03/how-to- ... t-123.html

[grumpypenguin]

I already have those (actually, mine are a later build: 8.960, not 8.951) and they've got the same symptoms I've mentioned earlier. The drivers I'm talking about are version 12.4.

[gamez]

The problem is that there seem to be several ways to install AMD/ATI Radeon Catalyst drivers on Linux Mint:
(1) via the "additional hardware driver" feature
(2) via the Fglrx packages from within the package manager
(3) via the run shell scripts for Linux from the ATI/AMD driver download page.

It seems you can't tell in advance which method works for which version of Linux Mint - you'll have to experiment a bit - or wait for the experience of someone else.

For my graphics card in particular, a VGE 2048MB MSI R6950 Twin Frozer II/OC, I had some success with method (3) for LM 11 and driver versions 11.x (name prefix "ATI"), and for LM 12 and driver version 12.x (name prefix "AMD").

However, at this time it seems we're still getting a BSOD in fglrx when shutting down or rebooting LM 12 - wait and see.

A second BIG problem is that reverting a half-way installation back to VGA sometime leave you with a totally unusable system, if you don't follow the uninstall guide contained in the release notes. In chapter "Uninstalling the AMD Catalyst Proprietary Driver" it tells you to check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and if possible revert it back to an earlier / original version that is compatible with VGA / VESA mode and operations. If you don't, /etc/X11/xorg.conf may still contain references to the uninstalled fglrx or amdcccle modules, and leave you with an unusable system after reboot.

If you are in that situation already, you need to boot from a Live CD, or mount the failing partition from a still working one, and reset /etc/X11/xorg.conf as explained by the AMD support. Now, in my case again, I didn't have any other versions of that /etc/X11/xorg.conf file available, but I managed to revert back to VGA / VESA with a "dummy default xorg.conf". I hope this can help.

A third (little) problem is that the ATI control center (AMDCCCLE) sometimes won't start up, or won't save its settings. If your error message pertains again to the xorg.conf file, then something went wrong during installation of fglrx and it hasn't correctly updated that file. In my case, since I still had a file version from an earlier installation of fglrx, I simply reactivated the earlier xorg.conf file. Another reason could be that the AMD installer couldn't write (or overwrite) xorg.conf for some reason. Try to delete it before launching the installer, and make sure you're running the installer with root authorization.

If AMDCCCLE won't start for other reasons or doesn't save or update its configuration, you may try to start is with sudo from a terminal instead from the user menu.

Hope this helps, let me know;

g.

[gadgetmang]

I just installed Mint last weekend on my laptop and spent it trying to install the ATI video drivers with methods mention above and elsewhere, pretty much giving up trying to install it on my laptop but will build a desktop: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... u=B69-0555 with a nVIDIA GeForce 7025 inboard.

I'm hoping there are no issues with nVIDIA? Also is there some kind of compatibly list regarding vid card and Mint?
HP G62 Laptop specs:

ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) II P340 Dual-Core Processor
Memory : 5862MB (1346MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 12 Lisa
User Name : jay (Jay)
Date/Time : Tue 08 May 2012 11:26:04 AM PDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
-Input Devices-
Power Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Video Bus
HDA ATI SB Mic
HDA ATI SB Headphone
HP Webcam-101
HP WMI hotkeys
USB+PS/2 Optical Mouse
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
-Printers (CUPS)-
Print_to_PDF
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD3200BEVT-6
hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Toshiba External USB HDD
Generic USB SD Reader