Ati radeon 9600 drivers dont work for 9.04 ubuntu

soundpete · 06-30-2009, 11:22 AM

WHY ARE THE ATI RADEON 9600 DRIVERS NOT WORKING FOR VERSION 9.04, WHEN i KNOW THEY WHERE WORKING FINE FOR THE PREVIOUS VERSION!

CAN SOME ONE TELL ME OR FIX IT SO I CAN USE THEM

THANKS

jdkaye · 06-30-2009, 12:01 PM

1. Please don't shout. It's not very polite.
2. What drivers were/are you using? those in the ubuntu packages? those from the ATI website?
3. Can you explain what you mean by "not working"? What exactly is happening?
jdk

joshuapillar · 07-21-2009, 09:35 AM

I don't know if that other guy is going to respond back or not, but I am having an issue installing the latest ATI proprietary driver. I follow the installation directions per ATI with:

"To install the ATI Proprietary Linux driver using the Automatic option, follow these
steps:
1 Launch the Terminal Application/Window and navigate to the ATI Proprietary Linux
driver download.
2 Enter the command sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run to launch the ATI
Proprietary Linux driver installer.
The ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Setup dialog box is displayed."

But I get an erro message saying:

"james@james-desktop:~$ sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
[sudo] password for james:
sh: Can't open ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
james@james-desktop:~$ "

Of course I've tried just running the sh by itself without sudo, but same response.

My issue is that once Linux is booted up it will not recognize my second monitor. I assumed this was because I did not have the ATI driver installed. Help would be most appreciated.

jdkaye · 07-21-2009, 09:48 AM

Hi Josh,
First off, Welcome to LQ!

Since you're new, let me explain that it's bad form to hijack someone else's thread (take a thread started out by someone else and change it to suit your own needs. In the future please don't do this; start your own thread.

As for your question: you need to make the ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run file executable. First at a terminal type this (assuming your in the same folder as the install file)

Code:

ls -l ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

Mine looks like this.

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdkaye jdkaye 84841550 2009-03-28 09:59 ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run

Do you notice the little "x"'s towards the beginning of the line? I suspect you don't have any so the file is not executable in its current form. Do you notice the owner? That's me, jdkaye so to do anything to this file I don't need to be root or use sudo. If you are the owner of your file the same applies to you.
Just type at a terminal this command

Code:

chmod ugoa+x ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

and then try to execute it again. You must be root or use sudo to execute the file.
Cheers,
jdk

tredegar · 07-21-2009, 09:55 AM

I think he's in the wrong directory.

Eg if the file is on your Desktop, you'll need to cd Desktop
before you do the sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
Or, just give the full path to the file:
sudo sh /home/joshua/Desktop/ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

sycamorex · 07-21-2009, 09:55 AM

Quote:

"james@james-desktop:~$ sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
[sudo] password for james:
sh: Can't open ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
james@james-desktop:~$ "

Have you chmod'ed it?

Quote:

chmod +x ati-driver-installer......

jdkaye · 07-21-2009, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

I think he's in the wrong directory.

Eg if the file is on your Desktop, you'll need to cd Desktop
before you do the sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run
Or, just give the full path to the file:
sudo sh /home/joshua/Desktop/ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

Who knows where he put it.

But isn't there generally a message like "No such file or directory" when you're in the wrong folder? That's what I get on my system.
cheers,
jdk

tredegar · 07-21-2009, 10:12 AM

bash:

Code:

tred@vaio:~$ sh ./foo
sh: Can't open ./foo
tred@vaio:~$ ./foo
bash: ./foo: No such file or directory
tred@vaio:~$

jdkaye · 07-21-2009, 11:53 AM

Code:

jdkaye@Attila:~$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run
sh: ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run: No such file or directory
jdkaye@Attila:~$ ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run
bash: ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run: No such file or directory
jdkaye@Attila:~$

???
jdk

tredegar · 07-21-2009, 12:02 PM

@jdkaye (and off topic, so apologies in advance)
Weird. I'm running kubuntu 8.04, bash 3.2-0ubuntu18.
To be honest, when I saw the OP's error message:

Quote:

sh: Can't open ./ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

I thought "weird, shouldn't he see "No such file or directory"? ", so I tried it myself. Hence my

in post #8
Are you perhaps running some other shell?

tredegar · 07-21-2009, 12:09 PM

Still off-topic...

Quote:

Are you perhaps running some other shell?

No, I am as /bin/sh -> /bin/dash
Learn something new every day

Wondering how joshuapillar is getting on ....

joshuapillar · 07-21-2009, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Hi Josh,
First off, Welcome to LQ!

Since you're new, let me explain that it's bad form to hijack someone else's thread (take a thread started out by someone else and change it to suit your own needs. In the future please don't do this; start your own thread.

As for your question: you need to make the ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run file executable. First at a terminal type this (assuming your in the same folder as the install file)

Code:

ls -l ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

Mine looks like this.

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdkaye jdkaye 84841550 2009-03-28 09:59 ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run

Do you notice the little "x"'s towards the beginning of the line? I suspect you don't have any so the file is not executable in its current form. Do you notice the owner? That's me, jdkaye so to do anything to this file I don't need to be root or use sudo. If you are the owner of your file the same applies to you.
Just type at a terminal this command

Code:

chmod ugoa+x ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run

and then try to execute it again. You must be root or use sudo to execute the file.
Cheers,
jdk

Thanks for the clue. sorry about "hijacking".

I'm going to work on what you've suggested and then wade through the other comments as well. I definitely new to Linux, but I do know I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 pretty much out of the box, if that helps with letting you know what my shell and other configuration parameters are.

I have seen a lot of chatter about the ATI drivers not working with the latest ubuntu because of the Xorg version, but I'll be sure to report back after applying your changes.

thanks

joshuapillar · 07-21-2009, 12:40 PM

Ok so check this out, see attachment.

I took a screen shot to be sure I'm saying this correctly.

Now I'm getting the message:

"james@james-desktop:~$ ls -l ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run
ls: cannot access ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run: No such file or directory"

and still

"james@james-desktop:~$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run
sh: Can't open ./ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run"

I did the screen shot so you could see that the file is indeed on my desktop.

Where to go from here?

tredegar · 07-21-2009, 01:11 PM

The command pwd will print your working directory
I suspect it'll show /home/james
It needs to be /home/james/Desktop

You need to cd Desktop or cd desktop (linux is case sensitive) then try that command again.

Once you are there an ls should show you the ati.... file you need

It's complicated by the fact that your hostname is james-desktop
EDIT: and you need sudo at the start of the sh ./ati...

The little "~" before the "shell prompt" $ is telling you you are in "home" (probably /home/james but I am guessing here)

joshuapillar · 07-21-2009, 01:40 PM

I navigated to the Desktop via "cd Desktop".

I ran ls.

I ran chmod.

I ran sudo sh...and...Success!

However...

I now get this message when trying to initialize the driver per the ATI instructions:

"james@james-desktop:~$ /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial
/usr/bin/aticonfig: No supported adapters detected"

I'll reboot and see if I'm good anyway.