How do I install the latest ATI Catalyst Video Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal?

Question

There are other threads related to this question for Ubuntu 12.04, however THEY DO NOT APPLY TO 12.10. This is not a duplicate of another thread if the referenced thread doesn't answer the question asked.

Solution 1

For the purpose of this question: Catalyst = fglrx = proprietary AMD/ATI display driver

The most problems people are having come from the fact that:
1. Ubuntu has moved to newer driver versions, that don't support some older ATI/AMD chips
2. Ubuntu has moved to newer Xorg versions

Symptoms:
No. 1 - 'not supported' errors / Jockey not detecting proprietary drivers valid for installation
No. 2 - some older ATI/AMD Catalyst versions won't install

Which all comes down to:
Your chip is no longer supported by the latest ATI/AMD catalyst display drivers (be it via manual install or from Ubuntu repositories)

Solution:
Check, what is the latest driver version that supports your chip and then proceed with the installation accordingly.
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardware (may be slightly outdated)
or
enter your graphic card details here:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
use terminal command to display information about your graphics

lspci | grep VGA

If the latest version for you is 12.6 => proceed as per https://askubuntu.com/a/201785/29347

Chips that are indicated 'legacy' (not supported for the latest Catalyst versions):
Try the PPA listed here How to install old AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers on Ubuntu 12.10? You'll most probably get Catalyst 12.6

Chips that ARE supported in 12.10 / by the latest Catalyst drivers:
The installation should be accomplished as per What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?

Solution 2

Here is the latest version of Ati Catalyst 12.11 (beta) and 12.10 (stable) that has just been released ,you can find it here : http://www.upubuntu.com/search/label/System hope it will work .

Solution 3

The latest ATI catalyst for Ubuntu 12.10 I know of is this one:
AMD Catalyst 12,9 driver

First Uninstall the current driver AMD with these commands:

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh 
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx  

Manual installation:

To install AMD Catalyst 12.9 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10 run the following commands from the terminal:

sudo apt-get install unzip
cd /tmp && wget -O amd-12.9-9.00-EDG_Direct.zip http://www2.ati.com/drivers/embedded/9.00-120815a-146426C-EDG_Direct.zip
unzip amd-12.9-9.00-EDG_Direct.zip
chmod +x amd-driver-installer-9.00-x86.x86_64.run 
sudo sh amd-driver-installer-9.00-x86.x86_64.run

And then after the installation was finished run this command:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f 

Then reboot.

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Note: PPA has not been updated so far, but the driver will be updated soon. To install the driver provided by xorg-edgers, open the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fglrx-installer

Comments

[Admin]

or this ? askubuntu.com/questions/204129/…

[Admin]

I just get a "no proprietary drivers are in use" notice. No option to install the drivers.

[Admin]

Please consider marking my answer.

[Chris Bauer]

I'm getting one of the errors I get fairly often in my various attempts to install the driver: "Your graphics adapter is not supported by this driver. Installation will not proceed." I've tried googling the error to no avail.

[Chris Bauer]

I also tried adding the xorg-edgers/ppa repository and installing fglrx-installer, but I don't know what to do after that. Running fglrx-installer at terminal gives a bad command error.

[Chris Bauer]

That's odd, I have a Radeon 4870 which is still one of the better cards available.

[Chris Bauer]

Thanks, but both the 12.11 and 12.10 versions are giving me the "Your graphics adapter is not supported by this driver" error.

[Bucic]

@ChrisBauer According to the sources I've just added above your 4000 is 'legacy' already. Gotta love planned obsolescence ;)

[Chris Bauer]

Wow, thanks for your help. I'll look into this when I have more time. Looks like my next card will be a Nvidia :)