Why won't my graphics work in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
- by user170974
I'm very new to Ubuntu and to Linux in general, and took the leap and formatted my PC to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS very recently :)
I seem to be having some trouble getting my graphics card to run properly, I looked over what information I could find but I still cannot get it up and running and figured this was a good place to ask for help.
The information I can find on my graphics is as follows:
(Terminal command)
lspci
outputs:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M]
I tried using a mixture of the following links:
How do I fix my installation of ATI Catalyst Video Driver in 12.04 LTS?
What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)?
Ubuntu Precise Installation Guide
But it does not seem to work, since running fglrxinfo in terminal gives:
display: :0.0
screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 9.0.3)
What am I doing wrong here?
All help appreciated ;)
Edit:
I have tried the legacy driver from www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
I also tried the guide at https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx which caused the system to crash (blackscreen, no boot)
Neither seemed to work. I did however reinstall ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and re-tried both with no success.
Reintalling ubuntu did however fix the broken dependencies problems, etc.
