Lost my Radeon driver and now can't install it

[bachtobach]

Well I was trying to install the driver, I have it downloaded and it is a .run file but when I run it it says I need to be a super user, I don't know how to run it as sudo/root.

[heir4c]

Here is a link with info about the drivers for ATI/AMD, there mentioned your card that this is supported yet, but maybe it is not updated. although they mentioned the kernel version 3.11 at the bottom under the Audio section:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

[heir4c]

Sorry, ... (I deleted a wrong answer...)

[heir4c]

Right click on the file and click on "Properties". Look for the permissions. Check the box next to the text at the bottom that say: "Allow this file to run as a program". Than close that window and doubleclick on the file. Now you must get a window with options to run it or run in terminal or to display the text with gedit. If that not happens, than open a terminal and drag the file from nautilus into the terminal (now you see the file name in the terminal) and click Enter.

[bachtobach]

The permission of the file is set to root and all the options are greyed out. I tried dragging it in to the terminal but it said permission denied.

[heir4c]

Strange but ok.
Type first in the terminal: sudo
and click on the space bar and drag than the file into the terminal and then Enter. If it not work than remove the ' that you see at the beginning and the end of the filename in the terminal.

[Mark Phelps]

I assumed it was just a bug in 13.10 but obviously not. Is there no fix for this problem them?

Support for the AMD restricted driver for your card stops with Ubuntu 12.04.1. If you installed or upgraded to a recent version of 12.04, the AMD driver will not work anymore.

Sorry, but Ubuntu versions newer than 12.04.1 will not work with the AMD drivers and your video card. You are stuck using the default open-source Radeon drivers.

AMD has dropped support for the HD 2x/3x/4x-series cards.

[bachtobach]

Strange but ok.
Type first in the terminal: sudo
and click on the space bar and drag than the file into the terminal and then Enter. If it not work than remove the ' that you see at the beginning and the end of the filename in the terminal.

Weird, I tried that using sudo with and without the ' at the beginning and end but it says command not found for all combinations.

Support for the AMD restricted driver for your card stops with Ubuntu 12.04.1. If you installed or upgraded to a recent version of 12.04, the AMD driver will not work anymore.

Sorry, but Ubuntu versions newer than 12.04.1 will not work with the AMD drivers and your video card. You are stuck using the default open-source Radeon drivers.

AMD has dropped support for the HD 2x/3x/4x-series cards.

Thanks for the information, not what I wanted to hear but good to know anyway.

With regards to the issue of the fan running high all the time, I booted back in to the 3.2 kernel (had upgraded to 3.8) and it has fixed the issue. I'm not sure of the consequences of using the old kernel versus the new one though.

[heir4c]

Weird, I tried that using sudo with and without the ' at the beginning and end but it says command not found for all combinations.

There must a space left between the sudo and the filename:

sudo 'home/your-username/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run'

[bachtobach]

There must a space left between the sudo and the filename:

sudo 'home/your-username/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run'

Yeah that's what I've done - sudo '/home/alex/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run' - but still the same thing.