{"id":2676,"date":"2015-05-09T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2017-04-16T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:57:32","slug":"installing-amd-radeon-proprietary-driver-on-kubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2015\/installing-amd-radeon-proprietary-driver-on-kubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing AMD Radeon proprietary driver on Kubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying the driver from AMD’s website, I got the following error message:<\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Log files said dh-modaliases<\/em> was not installed. <\/p>\n

# apt-get install dh-modaliases<\/code><\/p>\n

Running the install script again:
\n\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Again failed. Said execstack not found. Grrr<\/p>\n

apt-get install execstack<\/code><\/p>\n

And then, it compiles with a single thread<\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I hate it when programs or not multithreaded :@<\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After compile it all, Lo! It’s old<\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally decided to try :-\/<\/p>\n

# apt-get install fglrx<\/code><\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s try a reboot. Maybe it might solve it.<\/p>\n

\"snapshot8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes it did!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying the driver from AMD’s website, I got the following error message: Log files said dh-modaliases was not installed. # apt-get install dh-modaliases Running the install script again: Again failed. Said execstack not found. Grrr apt-get install execstack And then, it compiles with a single thread I hate it when programs or not multithreaded :@ … Continue reading Installing AMD Radeon proprietary driver on Kubuntu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}