radeon x1550 catalyst 13.4 supported?

I am trying to install a proprietary driver and the AMD web site tells me to use Catalyst driver 9.3. I want the newest version of the driver I can get for this graphics card so will 13.4 work or will I have to use 9.3? also I am using 13.04 and is there anything else I should know about a non stock driver install and use?

Any help I can get will be greatly appreciated as I am only a few months new to Ubuntu and Linux in general.

1 Answer

The x1550 is no longer supported by the standard driver. You will need to either:

• Use the open source driver.
• Use this PPA to downgrade your X server and install the driver.
• Wait for an update to the legacy driver.

For the PPA option:

Run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy

Then restart your computer.

To Undo

Install ppa-purge:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

Then run:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:makson96/fglrx

P.S. unless AMD wises up, quits being silly, and changes their ways, no driver above 13.1 will support older cards such as the x1550 or HD 3450.