Upgraded to Catalyst 10.7 and no 3d effects anymore

[erikla2002]

I have been happily running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit for some time now with an ATI 4770 and Catalyst 10.1 drivers (I think). I read some about 10.7 and decided it was time to upgrade. I followed the instructions from ATI (sh ./ati-driver-installer-10-7-x86.x86_64.run). First time I didnt do sudo /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial

When I booted Compiz wasn't working anymore and Visual Effects under Appearance couldn't be enabled. I then uninstalled the 10.7 drivers (sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh) and installed the 10.1 again but it still doesn't work! What could be the probelm? I can't even open ATI Control Center anymore. The GUI never appears.

I have tried to install the catalyst drivers several times and rebooted.

[brokenromeo]

A couple of questions, is your card supported by the 10.7 drivers, and did your uninstall succeed...did you get confirmation, I assume you ran the uninstall from the /usr/bin/aticonfig directory?

[erikla2002]

A couple of questions, is your card supported by the 10.7 drivers, and did your uninstall succeed...did you get confirmation, I assume you ran the uninstall from the /usr/bin/aticonfig directory?

Yes my card is supported. Uninstall went fine and I was in /usr/share/ati.

Output:
erikla@erikla-desktop:/usr/share/ati$ sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh
restore of system environment completed
Uninstall fglrx driver complete...
erikla@erikla-desktop:/usr/share/ati$


When I boot after that it says Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode so I assume the uninstall went fine. What I don't get is why the 3d effects etc won't work when I install the old version that worked before.

[brokenromeo]

Does fglrxinfo give you any info?

[erikla2002]

Does fglrxinfo give you any info?

erikla@erikla-desktop:~$ fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 157 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 18
Current serial number in output stream: 18


I can now open ATI control center. See attached picture. Shouldn't it say something under OpenGL driver etc?



EDIT: It works now, I deleted /usr/share/ati and uninstalled fglrx via synaptic and reinstalled via synaptic.

[hamidoo]

ok what's the output of:


ldd `which fglrxinfo`


this line must be included in the output for proper functioanlity:


libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1