For your information, I asked AMD if they plan to release an official update for the 4xxx and lower series, in order to support Ubuntu 12.10. This is the response:
Thank you for contacting AMD!
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For your information, I asked AMD if they plan to release an official update for the 4xxx and lower series, in order to support Ubuntu 12.10. This is the response:
Thank you for contacting AMD!
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Sorry about the "newbie" question but, which are the open-source-drivers? I mean... where can I find them? Are they the pre-installed drivers of the Ubuntu distro?
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Which card are you using? What cards does this ppa support?
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I only did that:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy
how should I check if my X-server has downgraded? The...
Re: Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10. Unity is Missing
Well I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 and installing the fglrx-legacy didn't work for me... The resolution seems fixed but I don't have unity, window borders and the UI is laggy...
Do you know...
Try this!
I installed the latest drivers from the above site for my card and the problem is fixed.
I am glad to here that. I have no problems too since now but I'll keep that in mind just in case.
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First of all, I noticed that the freezes appeared only if you wait sometime (minimum 5mins) before you do a shutdown/restart.
My graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4650 Graphics and I...
Two restarts and one shutdown with no problems :guitar:
Before the update, every restart/shutdown was freezing. So the problem must be somewhere at the graphics card's drivers.
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I have the same problem with clean 12.04 install. Shutdown and Restart work ok from log screen though. So if you logout and the shutdown/restart it doesn't freeze. I've read that...