Oneiric 64-bit and AMD/ATI proprietary drivers

O. Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 13:47:43 UTC 2012


On 11/01/12 14:06, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Am about to officially give up.
>>
>> I have an HP Pavillion dm4 laptop with the dreaded hybrid graphics, in my
>> case in Intel integrated and an ATI HD5450 "discreet" card.
>>
>> On 11.04 I used 32-bit PAE and there it worked. But as I have 4Gb RAM
>> decided to opt for 64-bit when installing 11.10.
>>
>> Most things work well, there are some fairly odd apps that are only 32-bit
>> but I have no major problems (except new KDEPIM but that is separate issue).
>>
>> However - installing AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers fail one way or the other. If
>> I do from "additional drivers" I just get a message it fails. If I do from
>> Muon dito. If I use cli command apt-get or aptitude it can go all the way to
>> configuration.
>>
>> And that is where I get stuck whether I use downloaded from AMD package,
>> build packages, run the installer or whatever I do. Have been thru countless
>> sites with instructions and forums.
>>
>> The last step here is normally "aticonfig --initial -f" with or without -f.
>>
>> I either get an error "PowerXpress error: Cannot stat
>> '/usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL': No such file or directory" or "no supported
>> adapter present".
>>
>> So finally my question here: has anyone managed to get the hybrid graphics
>> with ATI/AMD working in 11.10 64-bit or are there ohters who have spent (too
>> much) time installing and failing?
>>
>
> Yes, I have installed them.  I just installed these packages (using
> aptitude, should work with apt-get):
>
> fglrx-updates
> fglrx-updates-dev
>
> If you tried to install fglrx package from ATI (ie, manual install),
> you will have uninstall it first, and then cleanup the mess it leaves
> behind, basically, some broken symlinks... I had a problem with that,
> after I removed "manually installed" drivers, I was unable to install
> the official packages.
>
> Oh, don't forget to install (if not already installed):
> linux-headers-generic (or whatever linux-headers you need for your
> current kernel), remember, this *have to* be the headers for your
> running kernel, and about any linux-headers will satisfy fglrx-updates
> dependency, but you need the one corresponding to your kernel, or it
> will fail.
>
> I don't know on your system, but on mine, aptitude shows "duplicated"
> packages names, it looks like the "duplicated" is the 32 bits version,
> but I have had odd issues (like conflicts with *a lot* of packages
> when I try to install most of these), make sure to pick the correct
> one.
>
> Now, I have had bad experiences with so called "hybrid graphics", in
> my case a ION-based netbook... in the end, I had to disable "discrete"
> graphics and leave only Intel enabled (because otherwise the netbook
> would get too hot, and drain battery real fast).
>

Thanks, unfortunately exactly the same outcome:
"PowerXpress error: Cannot stat'/usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL': No such 
file or directory"

and for sure said "switchlibGL" is non-existent.

And I am by now a seasoned expert on purging failed fglrx/amdcccle 
installs and restoring radeon :-)





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