Trouble with an ATI Proprietary Driver

[markbuntu]

The driver is misinstalled, most probably because old driver kernel modules are present from before the upgrade. You must remove ALL the old flgrx drivers on your system and then try hardware manager again. If you installed any with synaptic or apt-get then remove them the same way. If you installed any using the ati automatic installer or some manual method then you need to open a terminal and go to /usr/share/ati and run the command

sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh

If this does not work you can try

sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx

you should aso check in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx for any old drivers and remove them if you find any there.

[Malaz]

This worked perfectly. I've been having the same problems as AFarris01 with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, in the Gateway M6873h laptop. Running "sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx" and doing sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/[version number] on the old driver fixed my computer.

This thread is a year old, but the first person with this problem didn't reply. This worked for me on ubuntu 9.10. Mark it as solved?

[atentik]

This worked perfectly. I've been having the same problems as AFarris01 with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, in the Gateway M6873h laptop. Running "sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx" and doing sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/[version number] on the old driver fixed my computer.

This thread is a year old, but the first person with this problem didn't reply. This worked for me on ubuntu 9.10. Mark it as solved?

This just SOLVED my problem.

[sundman]

Reinstalling did solved the situation - the update to Karmic failed at some point and left the fglrx driver in an inconsistent state.