[ubuntu-uk] fglrx driver under 13.04

[Barry Drake]

Hi there ....  If any of you are using the AMD fglrx driver you might be 
interested in this.  The driver is fine under 12.10 and earlier, but 
under 13.04 Raring the driver works perfectly but gives an annoying 
transparent message in the lower right screen saying 'AMD Unsupported 
Hardware'.  The search engines tell me that this problem exists in every 
Ubuntu upgrade until the driver developers get around to recognising the 
new version of Ubuntu - which can take a while..

Two workarounds are offered.  The one that uses 'sed' simply breaks the 
current version and needs fglrx removing using the commandline, in order 
to rescue the system.  An elegant solution that works for me is to 
simply replace the file 'control' in /etc/ati/ with the one from an 
earlier Ubuntu version (in my case, 12.10).  /etc/ati/ is a symlink - 
the full path on my installation is 
/etc/alternatives/i386-linux-gnu_ati_conf  I have saved a copy of 
'control' as I assume that the annoyance will come back with the next 
kernel upgrade.

Regards,        Barry.

-- 
Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team.