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Re: Fresh install of xubuntu blacks out after installing video
Just for fun I decided to see how hard it could be to install ATI's Proprietary driver from their website.
I downloaded the ATI Catalyst™ 8.7 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver, filename ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run.
I double clicked on the file. gedit, the default Ubuntu text editor, comes up with an error. Close that.
I open up the Terminal, change to my Desktop directory, and get a long listing of the files there.
I can clearly see the ati driver.
Next I try to run the file.
I get a permission denied. The terminal doesn't know that this is an executable file, I need to make it executable.
Now the terminal knows that this is an executable. Let's try running it now.
Success. It's doing stuff.
Until I get a pop up window saying "You need to run this installer as the super-user."
Ok. Let's run this file as the super-user.
I enter my password, then it does some stuff, and eventually a Windows style wizard comes up. At this point it's just like the Windows driver setup.
Once that is done, I get a screen giving me some additional information. I click Finish. It doesn't ask me to restart, but I restart anyway.
After restarting I'm back at my desktop.
Where's the CCC? I look in the System menu but don't find anything. Then I open the Applications menu, and there it is.
Here is the short, and complete, process that I used to install ATI's driver
Download the driver to your desktop
Open up the terminal
cd Desktop
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run
sudo ./ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run
Follow the Windows style wizard
Manually restart
CCC appears in the Applications menu
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Derspankster
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Marion, OH | Amen brother, some people just refuse to be helped. This thread has gone on long enough.
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garywk
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| said by Derspankster  :Amen brother, some people just refuse to be helped. This thread has gone on long enough. You mean there are other people here that are coming the same conclusion I came to a long time ago? The poster who opened this thread, imo, is a troll.
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C0deZer0
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said by Derspankster :Amen brother, some people just refuse to be helped. This thread has gone on long enough. What part of "I did just as it said and it still *expletive* up" did you not understand? 
That's the whole problem here. I follow what these install guides say I should do to the letter and then have a problem where it's saying the app I'm supposed to be running doesn't exist, or that some stupid library or whatever doesn't exist and it doesn't want to go install/get it. And in every single case, that xorg file is either blank, or in the case of my last install, it just keeps booting into "low graphics mode" as Ubuntu calls it, then refuses to let me use a proper video resolution/refresh rate.
If I can't get this thing up and running, the system's going in the trash. Plain and simple; I've got enough on my plate between college and work to putz around with this thing's idiosynchrosies. That's not to say I don't appreciate the help - honestly, I do - but I've had up to my eyeballs in the arrogance of users like you. Either cut it or leave it, because I don't want to read or hear it. |
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Derspankster
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| said by C0deZer0 :said by Derspankster :Amen brother, some people just refuse to be helped. This thread has gone on long enough. What part of "I did just as it said and it still *expletive* up" did you not understand? That's the whole problem here. I follow what these install guides say I should do to the letter and then have a problem where it's saying the app I'm supposed to be running doesn't exist, or that some stupid library or whatever doesn't exist and it doesn't want to go install/get it. And in every single case, that xorg file is either blank, or in the case of my last install, it just keeps booting into "low graphics mode" as Ubuntu calls it, then refuses to let me use a proper video resolution/refresh rate. If I can't get this thing up and running, the system's going in the trash. Plain and simple; I've got enough on my plate between college and work to putz around with this thing's idiosynchrosies. That's not to say I don't appreciate the help - honestly, I do - but I've had up to my eyeballs in the arrogance of users like you. Either cut it or leave it, because I don't want to read or hear it. Listen pal, many people here have tried their best to help you and all you can do pout. It may be best for you to take your system to someone and have them install what-ever OS you decide you want to run and be done with it.
I was a newbie in Linux at one time and I still probably don't know half of what I should but at least I know how to search and read and ask for what I need to get to where I want to be.
Going to college? Whoopee! Guess you must know it all then. There is absolutely nothing arrogant about my position. If you think so, fine, I don't care what you think, you're a troll and a waste of time.
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