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Originally posted by king601 View PostCan you show me ** please ** where I can find tutorial for installing linux header package specifically for amd 12.11 driver or close to it . I googled but couldn't find a tutirial for at least ubuntu 12.04 for installing linux header . Thank you
is what he means as i understand him
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Originally posted by king601 View PostHave you guys managed to get Amd 7970m Working ?. I , today did fresh
installation of ubuntu 12.10 and tried both drivers version from Ubuntu's
restrcited fglrx-driver post update and from AMD's website 12.11 version
driver. Both installs , however, when restarting the system after completing
installation unity disappear and only the desktop shows appear on screen , so I
cant navigate to anything . Anybody encounter this problem ?
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Originally posted by king601 View PostCan you show me ** please ** where I can find tutorial for installing linux header package specifically for amd 12.11 driver or close to it . I googled but couldn't find a tutirial for at least ubuntu 12.04 for installing linux header . Thank youHTML Code:sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
. I faced **exactly** the same issues as reported it in this thread when trying to install the later fglrx from either repo or the site.
However this is what I did to fix ...
* Install the linux-headers-generic and then do the steps for amd64 or i386 as shown in this guide
actually I had installed fglrx package from repo after installing the headers. I simply followed the instructions here and just installed the generated deb files (which will overwrite the default catalyst 12.9 Beta from repo). It just worked fine. However you will get a amd testing only watermark. To get rid of that , here is a small patch which I found somewhere in the web
Code:#!/bin/sh DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER done
personally for me 12.11 beta drivers are working VERY well with KDE
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