AMD Radeon 6450 vs ubuntu 11.10

[angryfirelord]

Just as a follow up, this card didn't didn't work for me. I tried it under both Scientific Linux 6 and Fedora 16, but the card simply gave me a black screen upon trying to load X. The catalyst drivers didn't work either, so I ended up having to return it. Phoronix managed to use it for their testing, so I'm not sure why I wasn't able to get it to work.

[steve.]

For others with the same issue this is how I got AMD Radeon 6450 to work on 12.04 32bit.
It worked perfect when booted live.
After installation video failed to be useful so rebooted
Selected recovery and video was fine.
Tried updating drivers using "Additional Drivers" from Dash Home.
ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) - failed
Rebooted into recovery again and selected
ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver - worked