ATI PROPRIETARY DRIVER ISSUES SOLVED!!!!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:36 pm
Hello,
After searching for a solution to the ATI proprietary driver's problems on google and forums and finding nothing, I decided to try my own solution, The problem seems to be caused by a drivers conflict between the X.org drivers that are installed by default with Linux Mint and the proprietary drivers. After installing the proprietary drivers, I noticed that the X.org drivers were still there, so I knew there had to be a conflict there, therefore this is what I did to fix it:
- Fresh install of llinux mint.
- Uninstall the X.org drivers by opening synaptics and typing in radeon and then marking the X.org drivers for a complete removal.
- Reboot.
- Install ATI PROPRIETARY drivers by double clicking and following the wizard.. (optional, try first without this, if it does not work, then rep
- Reboot.
If the above steps do not work you might try running - sudo aticonfig --initial by booting onto a command line option or you might purge the fglrx or format linux and repeat the above steps and run - sudo aticonfig --initial before rebooting the last time, just right after the installation of of the drivers.
After this, the mouse does not get stuck anymore in the lower right corner, no more gnome 3 crashes and better performance than Windows 7, it runs smoothly and wonderfully.
So, let me know what you think people!!!
After searching for a solution to the ATI proprietary driver's problems on google and forums and finding nothing, I decided to try my own solution, The problem seems to be caused by a drivers conflict between the X.org drivers that are installed by default with Linux Mint and the proprietary drivers. After installing the proprietary drivers, I noticed that the X.org drivers were still there, so I knew there had to be a conflict there, therefore this is what I did to fix it:
- Fresh install of llinux mint.
- Uninstall the X.org drivers by opening synaptics and typing in radeon and then marking the X.org drivers for a complete removal.
- Reboot.
- Install ATI PROPRIETARY drivers by double clicking and following the wizard.. (optional, try first without this, if it does not work, then rep
- Reboot.
If the above steps do not work you might try running - sudo aticonfig --initial by booting onto a command line option or you might purge the fglrx or format linux and repeat the above steps and run - sudo aticonfig --initial before rebooting the last time, just right after the installation of of the drivers.
After this, the mouse does not get stuck anymore in the lower right corner, no more gnome 3 crashes and better performance than Windows 7, it runs smoothly and wonderfully.
So, let me know what you think people!!!