Uninstalling the driver from ATI Website

[Ultra_Man]

I don't know where else to put this. D:

I have a new powercolor HD 5670, installed the drivers from amd's website. It's not working and I need to uninstall it and install the fglrx that comes with ubuntu.

[quadproc]

I don't know where else to put this. D:

I have a new powercolor HD 5670, installed the drivers from amd's website. It's not working and I need to uninstall it and install the fglrx that comes with ubuntu.
If your installation was a normal one then you will find a file called

/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
If you run this file this way then the uninstall should happen:

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

quadproc

[Ultra_Man]

Gee thanks. I remember seeing that path after the installation. I guess I should have read it.

[Ultra_Man]

It's not working D:

[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
does not exist in /etc/ati. This suggests that the ATI driver
is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
required for determining where installed files are located.
To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
environment variable and re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).

[quadproc]

It's not working D:

[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
does not exist in /etc/ati.
This is not good. I will insert a copy of the standard install path default file below. You might be able to determine where the files ended up on your system by using the Places > Search for files function.


# /etc/ati/inst_path_default
#
# Created Fri Apr 2 14:22:07 PDT 2010 with the following configuration:
#
# Driver version: 8.712
# Default policy
# Policy version: default:v2:x86_64:lib32:x740_64a:none:2.6.31-20-generic:modular

# X_VERSION and _ARCH set by check.sh
X_VERSION=x740_64a
_ARCH=x86_64

ATI_XLIB_32=/usr/lib32
ATI_XLIB_64=/usr/lib64
ATI_XLIB_EXT_32=/usr/lib32/xorg/modules/extensions
ATI_XLIB_EXT_64=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions
ATI_3D_DRV_32=/usr/lib32/dri
ATI_3D_DRV_64=/usr/lib64/dri
ATI_XLIB=/usr/lib64
ATI_X_BIN=/usr/bin
ATI_SBIN=/usr/sbin
ATI_KERN_MOD=/lib/modules/fglrx
ATI_2D_DRV=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers
ATI_X_MODULE=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules
ATI_DRM_LIB=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux
ATI_CP_LNK=/usr/share/applications
ATI_CP_KDE3_LNK=/opt/kde3/share/applnk
ATI_GL_INCLUDE=/usr/include/GL
ATI_ATIGL_INCLUDE=/usr/include/ATI/GL
ATI_CP_KDE_LNK=/usr/share/applnk
ATI_DOC=/usr/share/doc/ati
ATI_CP_DOC=/usr/share/doc/ati
ATI_CP_GNOME_LNK=/usr/share/gnome/apps
ATI_ICON=/usr/share/icons
ATI_MAN=/usr/share/man
ATI_SRC=/usr/src/ati
ATI_X11_INCLUDE=/usr/include/X11/extensions
ATI_CP_BIN=/usr/bin
ATI_CP_I18N=/usr/share/ati/amdcccle
ATI_LIB=/usr/share/ati/lib64
ATI_LOG=/usr/share/ati
ATI_CONFIG=/etc/ati
ATI_UNINST=/usr/share/atiAnother thing to look for: if you have an xorg.conf file then it should specify which driver is in use. You will need to be using something other than fglrx when you are removing the old driver. I found that the "ati" driver worked well enough for that purpose. To see what is in the xorg.conf, type this:

grep "river" < /etc/X11/xorg.confand look for a non-commented driver line.

quadproc