Updating Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) ATI driver

Posted by timhaak on November 5, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Ok if your like me you’ve been wanting to update ATI driver but doing it through Jokey is broken so here are the steps to do it.

Download the latest driver for linux from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
Next make the file executable. After this run the command bellow which should build and install you new packages. (The file bellow is for 64 bit replace with the file that you downloaded if for i386)
```
sudo chmod u+x ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run
sudo ./ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildandinstallpkg Ubuntu/oneiric
```
Done

As a side note if your having problems installing make sure the old files are removed properly with

apt-get install aptitude;
aptitude purge fglrx fglrx-dev fglrx-amdcccle

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