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olligobber
March 17th, 2015, 04:36 AM
My new computer has an Asus Radeon R9 290 DC2 4GD5 in it, and didn't seem to be having great performance, so I installed some drivers that I got off the AMD website, with no improvement. I have no idea which drivers to use now, and after trying to install fglrx from terminal got the following error message:


Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fglrx : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-15
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

What have I done wrong?
QIII
March 17th, 2015, 04:48 AM
You didn't do anything wrong.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1424491

For the moment, 12.04.4 pr 14.04.1 will work. That or 14.10.

The bad thing about this is that I had just just blogged about how well the R9 290X worked with Ubuntu. The new hardware enablement stack made me have to eat crow. I'm not happy.
olligobber
March 17th, 2015, 06:50 AM
So how do I install graphics drivers please?
olligobber
March 17th, 2015, 06:51 AM
You didn't do anything wrong.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1424491

For the moment, 12.04.4 pr 14.04.1 will work. That or 14.10.

The bad thing about this is that I had just just blogged about how well the R9 290X worked with Ubuntu. The new hardware enablement stack made me have to eat crow. I'm not happy.

So how do I install graphics drivers please?

Edit: After a reboot everything works fine... I think I did enough apt-get purge fglrx* commands

Edit2: Ok, so apt-get purge fglrx* got rid of the graphics drivers I had installed, next I updated to Ubuntu 14.10 (without proper graphics drivers). After several reboots I got a command line interface and did apt-get install fglrx-updates, rebooted, and I had drivers.