
AMD Catalyst 12.8 Driver Installation
Uninstall first the old driver with the following commands:
sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx
To install Catalyst 12.8 on Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 13 or older, open the terminal and run the following commands (for both i386 & amd64 platforms):
cd /tmp && wget -O amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip http://goo.gl/ZZkYR
unzip amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip
chmod +x amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run
A window will pop-up which will guide you in installing the driver on your system:
When you finsih the installation, run this command:
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Finally, reboot your system to get this driver working.
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