Tuesday 2 April 2013

UBUNTU, STEAM & AMD DRIVER ISSUES

Well I suppose not really Ubuntu's fault nor Canonical's but is AMD's fault this one.

It seems after spending an absolute age installing Steam...AGAIN and then an even longer age, or I should say several days thank to the NARROWBAND connection I then went to run...

COUNTER STRIKE SOURCE

Only it failed and told me my OpenGL driver was the wrong one or out of date or whatever.

So I fiddled about and was looking in the Catalyst Control Centre and looking for options and I noticed it was not on ...

MAXIMUM GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE and was instead on...

BATTERY SAVING PERFORMANCE

So I thought ooh it is using the HD4200 Graphics chip instead of the HD5470 Graphics chip?!

So I switched it over and it said it needed a rebooot...

REBOOT!

In the desktop I immediately notice my launcher icons are bigger and no longer transparent and I am like uh-oh 3D graphics is gone...AGAIN!!!

I then go into Catalyst Control Centre and it tells me it cannot run there IS a problem as there is no AMD/ATI Driver?!

I then discover that the laptop ONLY HAD the HD4200 driver installed anyway which was bloody weird because the Catalyst Control Centre gave me the option of high or low power?! On the HD4200???

No wait?! So is there to power options on the HD5470M then so you end u having to deal with FOUR SEPARATE POWER OPTIONS??

Surely not...so they let Chimpanzees create the Linux Drivers over at AMD then? Jesus bloody Christ AMD what are you playing at over there?!

SOOOO.... my DRIVER UPDATE program has now been listing no less than FOUR ATI DRIVERS for my system and they are...

FIRE GL - or in English Red Rag to a BULL!!!
PROPRIETARY DRIVER (POST UPDATES)
EXPERIMENTAL DRIVER
BINARY Xorg DRIVE
PROPRIETARY DRIVE (the HD4200 one that previously worked)

SOOOO.... lmao....

Post Updates        - FAIL
Binary ORG          - FAIL
EXPERIMENTAL - FAIL
FIRE GL                 - FAIL

Start thinking crap the oroginal HD4200 will now fail but no its OK.

Takes a bloody age to install each one too, like 20 to 30 minutes?!?!

LMAO...

Anyway a few screen shots now of the different sections and my desktop...

Hmm not NECESSARILY in the RIGHT ORDER?! LMAO!











1 comment:

  1. OMG... Unity! I'm gonna blow chunks. get Gnome or MATE installed.
    Steam is having problems with Ubuntu, wont work for some reason.

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