Yesterday I switched from Debian 7.6 (Wheezy) to Ubuntu 13.10. In Debian following the official tutorial I could install the ATI propietary drivers from repositories. But in Ubuntu following the official tutorial I couldn't install it. My GPU is a ATI HD4330 or RV710/M92 (yes, it's compatible)
The first way to install it, was from repositories, but when I had to run aticonfig --initial the return was "aticonfig is not installed". The same happend with amdconfig. The second way to do it from repositories didn't work either, when I tried to run aticonfig --initial, the return was "your device is not compatibe", or something like that.
So I tried to install the ATI Cathalist, but after installing it, I reboot my compueter, but it wasn't working properly, the resolution was 640x480 instead of 1366x768 and when I tried to login the system crashed and it retuned back to the login screen. In TTY1 startx doesn't work either.
Thank you
1 Answer
I have had problems with the AMD/ATI driver too (Radeon 5870), I suggest you to download the drivers from the AMD site.
The last drivers doesn't give support to the HD4000 series: Here you'll find drivers for your video card:
But first, may be you'll need to uninstall the proprietary driver and install the open source version to get your desktop again.
sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
