Drivers not found

[npars]

Something is irking me about my new install of Kubuntu 12.10. It graphically works fine, no hitches or anything that I have noticed.. but something weird has occured. When I used Unity (referring to Ubuntu 12.10) it said that I had a driver available for install. With Kubuntu, this is not the case. It says no proprietary drivers are available, which I found strange since there was one available in Ubuntu. My graphics card is a Radeon HD 4200. Any ideas why a driver would not be available?

Thanks for any responses.

[vinnywright]

open a terminal and do

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

if the install is completely new and you have not updated the package cake then it may not know of the newer drivers.
and I am assuming you are talking about kickoff>applications>system>additional drivers

VINNY

[npars]

It's been completely updated.

Edit -- You are right, I'm talking about Additional Drivers

[schnelle]

Something is irking me about my new install of Kubuntu 12.10. It graphically works fine, no hitches or anything that I have noticed.. but something weird has occured. When I used Unity (referring to Ubuntu 12.10) it said that I had a driver available for install. With Kubuntu, this is not the case. It says no proprietary drivers are available, which I found strange since there was one available in Ubuntu. My graphics card is a Radeon HD 4200. Any ideas why a driver would not be available?

Thanks for any responses.

Your graphic card is not supported by catalyst driver anymore (only 5000+ series are supported now). You can use only opensource (default) driver in Ubuntu 12.10.

[vinnywright]

Humm I am at a loss then , I have never had anything but Intel grafics ,

VINNY

[npars]

Your graphic card is not supported by catalyst driver anymore (only 5000+ series are supported now). You can use only opensource (default) driver in Ubuntu 12.10.

Weird though, I had the option (and took it) to download a driver in Ubuntu 12.10, but have no such option in Kubuntu 12.10.

[oshunluvr]

It depends on which version of xorg you're using, maybe the Ubuntu install hadn't been upgraded to xorg 1.13 yet?

http://www.unixmen.com/ubuntu-12-10-...roblem-solved/

[npars]

It depends on which version of xorg you're using, maybe the Ubuntu install hadn't been upgraded to xorg 1.13 yet?

http://www.unixmen.com/ubuntu-12-10-...roblem-solved/

Interesting, I tried installing a driver manually and it claims that one or more tools required for installation cannot be found on the system. It says that I can install via the --force command, but forcing install will disable AMD hardware acceleration and may make my system unstable.

Is it worth trying to force install it or should I just let the current driver (whatever that may be) continue to do its job?

Edit -- After checking the .log file, I'm missing the gcc tool.

[oshunluvr]

I fail to understand how forcing a package install would disable hardware acceleration, but why would you do that anyway? Why not install the missing packages?

[npars]

I fail to understand how forcing a package install would disable hardware acceleration, but why would you do that anyway? Why not install the missing packages?

I got the driver installed after installing gcc, but now my default (and only choice) resolution is 1024x768. This driver seems to have made things worse.. I've tried editing xorg to allow only 1366x768 (my laptop's resolution) and it still only shows 1024x768. Got any ideas?

[npars]

Here is my xorg:

ection "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1366x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I'm a little lost as to why 1024x768 is the only resolution I have available, since 1366x768 is the only one I provided in xorg

[oshunluvr]

The answer may lie in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I suspect you'll find a message about unsupported resolutions. The another answer to your question as to why you don't get your requested resolution is you've provided no mode line for it, leaving xorg to figure it out itself.

You can attempt to change your resolution using xrandr at the command line and once you get it right, make it permanent in Xsession or rc.local or you can work out a modeline and put it in xorg.conf.

I don't use ATI products so I can't speak to the driver or it's abilities. I can say using an older Intel video chip, it took many hours or work to get 1366x768 to look close. It's basically an unsupported resolution because 1366 isn't divisible by 8. You'll probably end up with 1360 or 1368 and then adjust the scan to fit your screen. Your EDID is probably not right either, so you'll need to turn that off as well.


cvt can calculate a modeline for you, but won't do 1366 - 1360 or 1368 will be the results.

With this information you can calculate the correct modeline:
clock=85.800
hres=1360
vres=768

so: Modeline "1360x768" 85.800 1360 aaaa bbbb cccc 768 ddd eee fff +HSync +Vsync
cccc=clock/hfreq = 85800/47.712 = 1800 (rounded to 8-multiple)
eee = hfreq/vfreq = (85800/1800)/60.0015 = 794
aaaa and bbbb are between 1360 and cccc (determining horizontal position) same for ddd and eee.

The odd thing I discovered was Ubuntu (old gnome version) worked when booted to a liveUSB, but after install did not.

Doing a web search for 1366x768 and ubuntu will reveal hundreds of posts related to this problem.

[oshunluvr]

I found this:

www.gacosta.net/Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/making-ubuntunvidia-recognize-your-widescreen-1366x768-resolution.html

but I don't know if it works with fglrx.

[npars]

I found this:

www.gacosta.net/Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/making-ubuntunvidia-recognize-your-widescreen-1366x768-resolution.html

but I don't know if it works with fglrx.

Thanks for all your help. I think I've decided to revert back to whatever the system came with since it supports my resolution and everything seems to work and operate fine.

[kdeuser]

Same problem here.