Ubuntu AMD Catalyst install

Submitted by The Fan Club on

If you like to update your AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Drivers to the latest release, or would like to try the latest AMD Catalyst™ BETA Drivers, this application is for you. 

Looking for a reliable consistent way to update my AMD / ATi graphics drivers on multiple Ubuntu machines. I decided to write my own GUI installation program to do the job. All comments and improvements are very welcome as this is purely a personal project at this point and must be considered a work in progress. 

Features:

  • The application auto detects your ATI / AMD graphics hardware and selects the best driver options to install.
  • This application downloads, creates DEB packages and installs the latest AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Drivers for Ubuntu 32bit/64bit.
  • You can also install the latest AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display BETA Drivers as well as Legacy AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Drivers if your hardware is supported.

Supported Hardware:

  • The application attempts to correctly identify your hardware and determine the latest driver options for your system available from the AMD download pages.
  • This would also depend on the driver version you choose to install. See the Release Notes on the AMD Catalyst Linux driver download page for details.
  • Current Driver : AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver

Installation:

  • Download the Ubuntu AMD Catalyst Install application (download links at bottom of page)
  • Double click on the downloaded .deb file to Install the application using the Ubuntu Software Center or manually with dpkg -i from the command line.
  • Search Ubuntu Dash for Ubuntu AMD Catalyst Driver install and start the application.
  • Follow the on-screen instructions (see screenshots below)

Requirements:

  • The application requires that the following build packages are present on your system and installs them if missing during installation.

    • required packages: linux-headers-generic build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases
    • ia32-libs is also required on 64bit Ubuntu installations.

Notes:

  • All downloaded driver and built installation DEB package files are stored in the download folder selected during the installation, under a sub-folder named according to the driver selected. For example : ~/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64 

  • If you install the latest BETA drivers - the application will automatically remove the "AMD Testing Use Only" watermark during installation.
  • Installation log file can be found at : /var/log/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install.log
  • The application has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04  64bit and 32bit.

Support:

  • Visit the Ubuntu AMD Catalyst install SourceForge project page
  • For complete manual command line installation instructions for AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Drivers, please visit the Ubuntu Community Page : BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Using Ubuntu AMD Catalyst install:

1. Getting Started - Hardware detection and compatiblity checks.

  • Start the application from the dash.
  • It will start detecting your system hardware configuration and driver compatibility.

If your hardware is supported by the latest drivers you will be shown a display similar to the one below indicating full support.

If your hardware is only supported by the legacy drivers you will be shown a display similar to the one below indicating legacy support.

If your hardware is too old and not supported by the legacy drivers you will be shown a display similar to the one below indicating no support.

2. Select the driver to install.

Or if your hardware is only supported by the legacy drivers you will be presented with the latest version of the legacy drivers for download.

3. Download driver.

  • When the driver download is completed, as below - the Next button becomes active.
  • Click Next to continue.

4. Build Ubuntu DEB installation packages.

5. Remove old drivers.

6. Install new drivers from installation packages.

7. Enable Video Hardware Acceleration.

8. Reboot to complete the installation.

 

Download: 

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Ubuntu-AMD-Catalyst-install.deb | version 2.7 | 32 bit30.16 KB
Ubuntu-AMD-Catalyst-install.deb | version 2.7 | 64 bit30.17 KB

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Comments

Hi

Submitted by rk (not verified) on

Hi Am excited to see this , but want to know if it works for old cards like the x1300 radeon. Could you add a section on what cards this guide is meant for. Would be very much appreciated

The cards supported would

Submitted by The Fan Club on

The cards supported would depend on the version of the driver that you choose to download. The latest stable driver is 13.1 and the release notes on the AMD driver page lists the cards that are supported. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst131ProprietaryLinuxGraphicsDriverReleaseNotes.aspx The current legacy AMD Catalyst™ Driver supports AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series, but only up to Ubuntu 12.04. Reason being that the Legacy drivers only support kernel versions up to 3.4 and X-Server versions up to 1.12. Ubuntu 12.10 is not officially supported by legacy drivers, and using the open source drivers are advised, or there are workarounds on the net to downgrade to X-Server 1.12 and patch the kernel to install the legacy drivers. As far as the older ATi graphics cards like the x1300 are concerned, the older legacy catalyst drivers before the HD2000 are not currently supported by this tool. The main use of this application would be to install the latest drivers and test beta drivers for more recent (after 2007) AMD graphic cards and integrated solutions.

Hey thank you so much for

Submitted by Bradley (not verified) on

Hey thank you so much for this this is my first time ever with ubuntu so your making this a whole lot easier on me thanks :) im fixin try the new 2.1 version wish me luck :)

I have to report an issue:

Submitted by Yuriy Istochnikov (not verified) on

I have to report an issue: The installer doesn't recognize the AMD Trinity APU. I have the 13.02 beta drivers installed on my HP Envy M6 (AMD A10-4600M with Radeon 7660G Graphics), but your installer says "AMD Radeon 1002: Your card is too old"

* Version 2.2 released

Submitted by The Fan Club on

* Version 2.2 released - Added ability to enable video hardware acceleration. - Improved AMD graphics hardware detection. - Improved error detection.

I have the exact same problem

Submitted by Garabet (not verified) on

I have the exact same problem. The application cannot detect my card. Here is the result from terminal; *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics) physical id: 5 bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdfe0000-fdfeffff memory:fde00000-fdefffff

Added support for Non AMD /

Submitted by The Fan Club on

Added support for Non AMD / Ati vendor strings in Version 2.3 - It should detect you card correctly. But the drivers will only work with Ubuntu 12.04 as the legacy drivers you need for your system does not work with 12.10 / 13.04.

If the second graphics card

Submitted by The Fan Club on

If the second graphics card is also an AMD / Ati card and both are supported by the driver, then there is no need for another driver. The second card should just work. In the AMD Catalyst Control Centre you will be able to switch graphics cards once the AMD Catalyst diver is correctly installed on hybrid systems like the AMD Trinity series.If you have two cards that require two different AMD/Ati drivers, this will not work.

Hi! Every time i try to

Submitted by MrPoofy (not verified) on

Hi! Every time i try to install the drivers using the application i get the error message "Failed to build Ubuntu DEB installation packages The application will now close". It detects my graphic card just fine, i'm using Xubuntu 12.10 fresh install, Linux Kernel 3.5 and X-Server 1.13. And i have all the build packages installed and updated.

Please post the output of

Submitted by The Fan Club on

Something has gone wrong during the build process and no deb packages were created. This is usually a driver compiling error and hard to pinpoint the problem unless you manually build the driver. You can delete the driver directory created in your downloads folder to make sure it is not an old file causing problems. It may have to do with the packages required to build the driver (see required build packages in instructions), or some compatibility issue. Please post the output of your install log file by opening the file with a text editor or from the terminal with: cat /var/log/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install.log

For AMD Radeon HD 4500/5100

Submitted by The Fan Club on

For AMD Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series - Install the linux header files and try the AMD driver installation again. sudo apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-generic . See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1025488

New AMD driver out (10th

Submitted by Des (not verified) on

New AMD driver out (10th April) : http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-3LINBetaDriver.aspx Works great with HD 7250 on Acer Aspire One 725 : finally it detects the wrestler chip

Having some trouble

Submitted by JJT (not verified) on

Having some trouble installing the .deb on Ubuntu 13.04 I've double-clicked on it and the Software Centre says it's installed but the program is nowhere to be found in the Dash. I don't even see an installation log file. Any ideas?

Make sure you have the latest

Submitted by The Fan Club on

Make sure you have the latest version installed, or try uninstall en re-install. It should show up in the dash, if not you can start the program from the command line with : gksudo sh /opt/thefanclub/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install

Running that command did not

Submitted by Tekchip (not verified) on

Running that command did not work. I uncompressed the deb and compared the files to what was in /opt/thefanclub/ubuntu-adm-catalyst-install to find that the ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install file was not making it's way to the appropriate folder. I copied the file manually in to /opt/thefanclub/ubuntu-adm-catalyst-install/ and then ran your command line command and it fired right up.

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