Cant find ATI drivers

manic111 · 8 Sep 2008 at 18:47

I've just installed Linux Mint, and have got the message about using the ATI restricted drivers. When I hit "enable" in the driver manager, it attempts to download the drivers. I get this error message:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/p...iver-fglrx_7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.13-18.41_i386.deb
404 Not Found

Any ideas?

EDIT: I've tried to get the files through synaptic, and it can't find the same file. I think that that repository is down. Is there any way around this?

pingwing · 8 Sep 2008 at 18:59

What ati card are you using?? and 32 or 64bit??

Eitherway do it your self windows stylee and go to http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML and pick linux.You'll get a .run or something similar, just run it as root and it should guide you through

(edit, yeah this method isnt as good as using a packagemanager but helps a lot if somethings broken)

manic111 · 8 Sep 2008 at 19:07

OK cheers-I'm just downloading some other updates and then will give it a go. I'm a bit of a noob, so what do you mean run it as root? Do you do this via the terminal or just by clicking on it?

I'm running an HD3850 (it had all the drivers on my old Ubuntu install so shouldnt be an issue). The install is 32bit.

pingwing · 8 Sep 2008 at 19:17

Ah the hardware should be all ok then.

Yeah if you whip out a root terminal (or sudo it or just run it as root) then it should install fine (much like windows)

Just a though but are you trying the driver manager whilst Mint is updating its self? if so ubuntu cant handle more than one thing updating/installing (so synaptic and the normal packagme manager cant do stuff at the same time) which could have caused the error. When everything else has updated try the original method you used again before you go for the manual install

manic111 · 8 Sep 2008 at 19:22

No, if you try to run 2 package managers at once it lets you know fairly vehemently! Right, got the graphics drivers working. The next thing is that Youtube videos were working originally. Now, having used sudo apt-get upgrade they aren't. Any ideas!!?

EDIT: All working again after reboot, cheers!

pingwing · 8 Sep 2008 at 19:30

Hummm, have you gone to firefox and checked to see if flash is installed (yeah it should have been originally but when the drivers change something could have happened)

My advice on this would be to go to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/down...Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux and get the .tar.gz and do a manual install (and see if it works). If not have a nosey to ubuntu forums (im a gentoo man so they are the best people to turn to when ubuntu is being funny)

manic111 · 8 Sep 2008 at 20:02

I've got it working! Cheers.

pingwing · 8 Sep 2008 at 20:06

Ah brilliant! Good to hear

Just out of interest but which method did you use??

bennyB · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:31

Bit of a thread hijack but it's pretty close to mine so there's no point starting another...

I downloaded the drivers for 64bit, tried installing as root through synaptic everything seemed ok the restricted drivers appeared...... then went to restart and it all went to safe graphics mode with everything in 800x680! :eek:

Any ideas what's happening? I cant open the catalyst control centre either

oh and spec is as sig....

manic111 · 14 Sep 2008 at 20:11

pingwing said:
Ah brilliant! Good to hear

Just out of interest but which method did you use??

I used the first method, got it off the Adobe website

Sorry Benny, I have no idea what's up with yours! Have you checked all the resolution settings?

bennyB · 15 Sep 2008 at 02:22

yeah the maximum i can set it is 800x680, which is odd. i had a search through the ubuntu forums for a method of install and it seems there might be quite a bit more to it than i thought! i think i may not have all the prerequiste packages installed so that won't help...

i think i'm going to try and follow this guide by the letter (linked from the Unofficial Wiki for the ATI Linux Driver) and hopefully that will work, wish me luck!

manic111 · 15 Sep 2008 at 19:55

Good luck!

pingwing · 15 Sep 2008 at 20:03

Hummm as root (sudo probably will do) open up /etc/X11/xorg.conf

commands like "sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf" are the best ubuntu way..

and scroll down till you find a bit with this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7900 GS" Edit: this will say your ati card
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1920x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection

and where you have modes "1920x1200" (in my example, you'll ahve something like 800x680) type in one or two resolutions your monitor can do (aka the native resolution and a failsafe one like 1024x768) and reboot X (or the system if crt+alt+backspace doesnt reboot X)

That should do the trick (make sure when driver comes up for the graphics card theres something along the lines of ati-fglrx there too)

Also nice one manic111!