DKMS part of installation failed. ati driver issue after update.

[noveevon]

here is the message i get when i try to install any proprietary ati driver:

DKMS part of installation failed. Please refer to /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log for details

it all started after i had a major update today a few hours ago.. ever since then ive been trying to install every possible driver ive found, but i always get that error..

the last good driver that ive been using is the 10.6 and that worked great...

the reason i am using propitiatory and not the open source is because i rely on the

aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 25"

command to make my ati 4850HD more silent as without the command i can simply not use my card due to its extreme noise..

any help would be great...and yes ive been looking for other thread about this problem but i cant find any that works for me..

[IvoP123]

here is the message i get when i try to install any proprietary ati driver:



it all started after i had a major update today a few hours ago.. ever since then ive been trying to install every possible driver ive found, but i always get that error..

the last good driver that ive been using is the 10.6 and that worked great...

the reason i am using propitiatory and not the open source is because i rely on the command to make my ati 4850HD more silent as without the command i can simply not use my card due to its extreme noise..

any help would be great...and yes ive been looking for other thread about this problem but i cant find any that works for me..

i have same problem...

[noveevon]

ok, ive been thinking and i will try this:

How to Undo an Update in Ubuntu Lucid



i found these as todays updates:

Commit Log for Wed Sep 29 17:05:52 2010


Upgraded the following packages:
cheese (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.30.1-0ubuntu2
cheese-common (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.30.1-0ubuntu2
gnome-terminal (2.29.6-0ubuntu5) to 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
gnome-terminal-data (2.29.6-0ubuntu5) to 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
google-chrome-stable (6.0.472.62-r59676) to 6.0.472.63-r59945
libcheese-gtk18 (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.30.1-0ubuntu2
libphonon4 (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-assistant (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-core (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-dbus (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-designer (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-gui (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-help (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-network (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-opengl (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-qt3support (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-script (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-scripttools (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-sql (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-sql-mysql (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-sql-sqlite (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-svg (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-test (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-webkit (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-xml (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqt4-xmlpatterns (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqtcore4 (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
libqtgui4 (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
linux-generic (2.6.32.24.25) to 2.6.32.25.27
linux-headers-generic (2.6.32.24.25) to 2.6.32.25.27
linux-image-generic (2.6.32.24.25) to 2.6.32.25.27
linux-libc-dev (2.6.32-24.43) to 2.6.32-25.44
phonon (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) to 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
python-software-properties (0.75.10) to 0.75.10.1
software-properties-gtk (0.75.10) to 0.75.10.1
software-properties-kde (0.75.10) to 0.75.10.1

Installed the following packages:
linux-headers-2.6.32-25 (2.6.32-25.44)
linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic (2.6.32-25.44)
linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic (2.6.32-25.44)

so now i just have to find out which could be responsible..

[IvoP123]

ok, ive been thinking and i will try this:

How to Undo an Update in Ubuntu Lucid



i found these as todays updates:



so now i just have to find out which could be responsible..

i believe this is caused by kernel update (at least in my case)

[noveevon]

i believe this is caused by kernel update (at least in my case)

did you try to revert to an older ones/ roll back the update?

[IvoP123]

did you try to revert to an older ones/ roll back the update?

i tried to find out how to solve this on new kernel. didn't really try to revert to older one (which i believe is complicated, but i'm noob so...).

[noveevon]

i tried to find out how to solve this on new kernel. didn't really try to revert to older one (which i believe is complicated, but i'm noob so...).

yeah im pretty noob myself..hoping there will be a new update by this time tomorrow which will fix it, if not i am hoping one of the veterans here will try and helps us..

seems there are allot of problems with ATI drivers and updates...

now if only i could find another way to control my GPU fan speed i would gladly just use some open source drivers instead of these problem filled ones...

[IvoP123]

yeah im pretty noob myself..hoping there will be a new update by this time tomorrow which will fix it, if not i am hoping one of the veterans here will try and helps us..

seems there are allot of problems with ATI drivers and updates...

now if only i could find another way to control my GPU fan speed i would gladly just use some open source drivers instead of these problem filled ones...

i hope so too... everything seems to run smoother with catalyst drivers. this is the reason why i use them...

[dreiche2]

Same problem here.

I'm on 9.10.

Rebooting after some updates today threw me into "low-graphics mode". After playing around for a while I now made it back into normal mode, but when I try to install the ATI drivers, I get the same error.

Help would be highly appreciated!

[Botruckle]

I was doing fine with the Catalyst 10.7 driver, then with tonight's update of Ubuntu, it complained about the video driver. I updated to the 10.9, but no real change. The update borked the video drivers, but not sure why. I tried reverting to 10.7, but again no joy. I'm on 64bit Ubuntu, ATI HD5850.

UPDATE: This ATI hotfix cured it for me: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...nuxHotfix.aspx