Problems with manual fglrx install

[cletus1jr]

Hi,

I recently upgraded to Lucid (x86_64) on an HP dv2 laptop, and after doing so, the system will not resume after a suspend (with fglrx installed from the "official" repositories). After reading a lot about the problem, I have seen that updating to the latest ATI driver had fixed this issue for some, so I would like to try that.

I am following the guide at at cchtml (http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Lucid_Installation_Guide).

First, I tried installing the Ubuntu-X team's drivers. However, after (successfully) adding their repository, an update does not fetch their packages:



...
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg [307B]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
...
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages [52.6kB]
Fetched 110kB in 0s (266kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
It looks like both the xorg-edgers and ubuntu-x-swat repositories are being ignored? (If I'm reading that correctly.) If I open the window System->Administration->Software Sources, I can see that the ubuntu-x-swat repository is checked, so I'm confused why it's being ignored.

If I try to demand the fglrx-installer package, I get an error that it cannot find this package.



[cjreed@cjreed-laptop Desktop]$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package fglrx-installer
I have the same issues for xorg-edgers and ubuntu-x-swat.

Finally, if I try to build the official ATI v10.7 drivers myself, I get an error that Linux is an unrecognized architecture!



[cjreed@cjreed-laptop Desktop]$ sh ati-driver-installer-10-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/lucid
Created directory fglrx-install.fGajKF
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Linux Driver-8.753............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...........................................
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Ubuntu/lucid
Error: unsupported architecture: Linux
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.fGajKF
I have installed all preliminary packages suggested in the guide:



[cjreed@cjreed-laptop Desktop]$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
cdbs is already the newest version.
fakeroot is already the newest version.
dh-make is already the newest version.
debhelper is already the newest version.
debconf is already the newest version.
libstdc++6 is already the newest version.
dkms is already the newest version.
libqtgui4 is already the newest version.
wget is already the newest version.
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated! I really can't understand why I'm unable to build the package from ATI myself.

Thanks!

- Corey

[cletus1jr]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to investigate the "Error: unsupported architecture: Linux" that I get when trying to build the ATI driver 10.7 package.

Thanks!

- Corey

[atryus28]

I'm having the same problem right now with the 10.8 drivers and those repos. I hope someone can give some insight as to why the package can not be found.

[cletus1jr]

Just in case anyone finds this thread, I've gotten fglrx to work by:



Unchecking both xorg-edgers and ubuntu-x-swat from the software sources
Building the Catalyst driver 10.10 myself following the direction at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Lucid_Installation_Guide#Installing_the_dri vers_manually
Doing "sudo sh ati-driver-installer-10-10-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/lucid" instead of the non-sudo command suggested in the guide. This actually fixed the "Unrecognized architecture:Linux" problem.
Building and installing the fglrx 10.9 hotfix (as suggested in the cchtml guide).

Now everything works again -- compiz as well as system suspend/restore!