ATI driver for Radeon 6530D

After installing Ubuntu on a machine with a Radeon 6530D graphics card, the machine will reboot to a black screen because of problems with the default graphics driver.

How do I install the proprietary ATI driver?

1 Answer

This is how I installed the ATI driver for Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04.

1. Reboot. When the black screen appears, press some of the cursor keys and a box will appear with a message about an X server error.

2. Press CTRL + ALT + F1 to get a tty terminal.

3. Log in as root. The password is your own password that you set during installation.

4. Remove the Xorg drivers. apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon

5. Reboot.

6. Repeat steps 1-3.

7. apt-get update

8. apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle-updates

9. aticonfig --initial

10. Reboot.

You should now have a working desktop. You will find the AMD Catalyst Control Centre in the menu, although I have never found a need to change any of the settings.