I cant get my Radeon HD 7770 to work

[Eman33]

I cannot get my radeon hd 7770 to work on Ubuntu 13.04. T\he system will not detect the graphics card and only shows that the integrated card on my motherboard is detected. How can I make it so the 7770 is detected so I can use it.

 

[mouse24]

Plug your monitor into the 7770. If that doesn't work disable the onboard GPU.

 

[Eman33]

Plug your monitor into the 7770. If that doesn't work disable the onboard GPU.

That did not help... I think the problem is that I need to install the drivers but I dont know how to do that

 

[mouse24]

If its not even detecting the dedicated GPU and you aren't able to get video output from it then that sounds a bit more serious than a simple driver install. (assuming that you can't even get into the bios or a post screen.)

Though I found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

(don't know if it applies, to tired to read it)

 

[smeezekitty]

I will warn you getting the AMD driver to work on Linux is a bit of a pain in the @$$. I did this recently.

You will need the primary video output on the Radeon card before this will work too.

My GPU for the one I recently setup was an onboard Radeon 3200.

On bootup it should be supported automatically with the open source Radeon driver. It worked but it stuttered like nobodies business in games.

I then went to the AMD site and installed the proprietary drivers. It was difficult requiring a patch for the 3.x series kernel.
But I had to use the legacy drivers because of my old card.

The mainstream drivers are probably better though.

Download these (or the 64 bit versions if appropriate): http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.42&lang=English

Extract it
Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where it is extracted
Run the following commands

sudo chmod +x *.run
sudo ./*.run

Follow the instructions and hope for the best.

Luckily once it installed it worked perfectly for me.

 

[nashjackyt]

Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where it is extracted
Run the following commands

sudo chmod +x *.run
sudo ./*.run

What do you mean by these commands? Could you please elaborate on them - I am having a similar problem with being unable to get my Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 working, but in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and have had no luck anywhere else or with any other forum posts or found solutions..

Please help, I sincerely hope that you have some information to offer!

 

[smeezekitty]

Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where it is extracted
Run the following commands

sudo chmod +x *.run
sudo ./*.run

What do you mean by these commands? Could you please elaborate on them - I am having a similar problem with being unable to get my Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 working, but in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and have had no luck anywhere else or with any other forum posts or found solutions..

Please help, I sincerely hope that you have some information to offer!

Run then in the terminal. I haven't run Ubuntu in a while so I can't say exactly where to find it
but it should look like this one once it's open:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/2DFKk.png

 

[nashjackyt]

I know how to run a Terminal and know what it is, I just need the commands to be explained and explored a tad further.

I have extracted the .zip to a folder - which is located in the Downloads folder and is called 'fglrx_15.200-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01'. Now, if the file name or type is incorrect and I've downloaded the wrong and thus this the cause of the problem with the commands, then please inform me of such.

When navigating, I get this in the terminal:
bash: /home/jack/Downloads/fglrx_15.200-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01: Is a directory

Please tell me, is it that the navigation is incorrect, because it doesn't show that I am in the Downloads folder? E.g. it still has the 'User@ComputerName:~$' format and doesn't say the current location (i.e. the Downloads folder, which would be '~/Downloads'.

Then, when running the 'sudo chmod +x *.run', it returns this:
chmod: cannot access ‘*.run’: No such file or directory

Thanks for the quick response, I must add and thank you also in advance if this proves helpful.

 

[smeezekitty]

When navigating, I get this in the terminal:
bash: /home/jack/Downloads/fglrx_15.200-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01: Is a directory

Then try going into the directory

cd fglrx_16.200-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01

I believe the .run files may be in there.

 

[nashjackyt]

Thanks, that command seems to get some results. However, it seems that the command 'sudo chmod +x *.run' does not work and returns this in the terminal:

chmod: cannot access ‘*.run’: No such file or directory

 

[smeezekitty]

Thanks, that command seems to get some results. However, it seems that the command 'sudo chmod +x *.run' does not work and returns this in the terminal:

chmod: cannot access ‘*.run’: No such file or directory

They may have changed the driver setup. What is in the directory? (run ls)

If you haven't figured it out alredy