AMD proprietary drivers

Question

I decided to install proprietary video driver to my HP Pavilion g6. My system is Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn (updated yesterday). Ok, i downloaded AMD Installer from official site.

sudo sh amd-driver-installer-14.301.1001-x86.x86_64.run --buildandinstallpkg

Now logs:

Created directory fglrx-install.Bn1Y9d
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver-14.301.1001......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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 AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager 
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Generating and Installing package: Ubuntu/utopic
Package /home/efog/fglrx-14.301.1001/fglrx_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /home/efog/fglrx-14.301.1001/fglrx-dev_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Package /home/efog/fglrx-14.301.1001/fglrx-amdcccle_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb has been successfully generated
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx.
(Reading database ... 393855 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack fglrx_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fglrx (2:14.301-0ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Preparing to unpack fglrx-amdcccle_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (2:14.301-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up fglrx (2:14.301-0ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Loading new fglrx-14.301 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.16.0-23-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.16.0-23-generic
Done.

fglrx:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.16.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod...........

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.10.20140925-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:14.301-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-23-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-10ubuntu2) ...
fglrx_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-amdcccle_14.301-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Cleaning up removed packages
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.Bn1Y9d

Every time i writing aticonfig i get aticonfig: No supported adapters detected.

But:

efog@efog-pc:~/fglrx-14.301.1001$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] (rev ff)

Now i am scared to reboot :D Help please.

Answer 1

Ubuntu has an Additional Drivers utility, which will show you what proprietary additional drivers are available to be installed and you can also install the proprietary graphics driver from the Additional Drivers utility, which is the better way to do it unless you're a gamer with a very new graphics card who needs the very latest version of the proprietary graphics card driver from the official AMD website.

Maybe you can boot and login to your desktop environment and fix this or maybe you'll get a black screen when you reboot, but you can also fix it from the black screen.

1. To bring up a text-only console use the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+F3 and then you will get a text-only virtual console which shows you a login prompt.

2. To uninstall the proprietary graphics driver from a text-only virtual console, login and run the command: sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

3. To start the Additional Drivers utility from the desktop environment search for Additional Drivers in the Dash and click the Additional Drivers icon.

4. There is also a text-only terminal program to show the available graphics driver packages. From the terminal or from the console run: ubuntu-drivers devices

5. AMD Catalyst Drivers 14.9 needs kernel-headers on 14.10, although it is missing a version for Utopic. This is yet another reason to choose a proprietary graphics driver from the Ubuntu repositories instead of downloading it from the official AMD website.

Hopefully some of these tips will help you to get this issue sorted out. In Ubuntu everything you need to do to install, uninstall or get information about a graphics driver can be done from a terminal or from a text-only console, so if you make a mistake you can fix it, even if you can't login to your graphical desktop environment.