Comment 0 for bug 1068661

I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu 12.10, after installing, Unity won't load.

Only the mouse and the wallpaper. If I initialize the settings sudo aticonfig --initial then after rebooting it gives a warning saying I'm in low graphics mode! How to fix this?

Even tried the drivers from AMD website (both the old 8.* and the new 9.* drivers)

Earlier i used software source to install the drivers. But when using the terminal, I got this warning :

- update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf because link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf is broken

Full installation log :

- pubudu@lap1:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates
[sudo] password for pubudu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
fglrx-amdcccle-updates
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 85.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 254 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://lk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/restricted fglrx-updates amd64 2:9.000-0ubuntu3 [79.4 MB]
Get:2 http://lk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/restricted fglrx-amdcccle-updates amd64 2:9.000-0ubuntu3 [5,747 kB]
Fetched 85.1 MB in 16min 38s (85.3 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-updates.
(Reading database ... 159905 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx-updates (from .../fglrx-updates_2%3a9.000-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-amdcccle-updates.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle-updates (from .../fglrx-amdcccle-updates_2%3a9.000-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up fglrx-updates (2:9.000-0ubuntu3) ...
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: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf because link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf is broken
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-updates-9.000 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.5.0-17-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.5.0-17-generic
Done.

fglrx_updates:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod.......

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle-updates (2:9.000-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place