R9 290 catalyst driver not working in Ubuntu 13.10

Romeru · Feb 2, 2014

Hey people!

As i have made my switch over to Ubuntu now, I'm trying to install the AMD catalyst drivers from AMD's website. I did this because i found no proprietary drivers on "software and updates". I belive this is because the R9 290 GPU is still very new, so i have no choice i think. After downloading the catalyst drivers and extracting the zip. I get a .run file, which i executed from the terminal with sudo sh <filename>.run. After this a graphical window popped up with the installation of the drivers. I accepted the terms and conditions and clicked install. At the end of the installation progress it says that i had recieved an error during the installation. I checked the .log file and it said that it was unable to compile the kernel or something. No matter what, after the installation completed i had to do a reboot. After rebooting i got to the login screen, logged in and the screen is completely black. I can only see my mouse and nothing else. So at that point i reinstalled Ubuntu completely.

Any help here? Or are there any other drivers i can use for my R9 290?

Thanks in advance !

skittle · Feb 2, 2014

Dont try to install from AMD website unless you want massive headache!
Install "fglrx-updates" from the package manager...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

Or just use the opensource driver that ships with ubuntu. The opensource driver is pretty good. But ubuntu ships with older software...
With your hardware you may want to look at more bleeding edge distrobutions like Fedora.

Romeru · Feb 3, 2014

skittle :

Hm. Alright, i'll have a look at this later today, i just switched out my R9 290 for my gtx 660. It had all the necessary drivers which i could use. But I'd love to use my new card instead. Especially since i have two monitors. But i'm not sure what you mean by the "package manager"?

Thanks for taking your time answering!

skittle · Feb 3, 2014

Maybe this will help you under stand. Installing software in Linux is not like windows.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

Romeru · Feb 3, 2014

skittle :

Alright, because i had terrible performance with Ubuntu, and there were no drivers i could see by default.

skittle · Feb 3, 2014

Again would advise against proprietary driver unless you absolutely need it.
Proprietary driver is a mess, difficult to install and requires to rebuild kernel module every time you upgrade kernel.
Too easy to Bork your system with proprietary driver...

The opensource drivers are default, they are already installed. Though I do not think 13.10 contains driver for your R9 series.
Performance with latest opensource drivers is pretty good. ~75% compared to proprietary driver.
Ubuntu also does not ship with 2D acceleration software "glamor-egl".

You can get latest opensource drivers and glamor-egl for ubuntu here: (specifically the R9 series uses the driver called "radeonsi" ; older cards use driver "radeon")
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/

Or you can use a distrobution that includes them by default like Fedora or ArchLinux.
Really you cannot be surprised that Ubuntu does not have bleeding edge software support for latest hardware!

http://fedoraproject.org/en/
Strongly recommend Fedora for newer hardware over Ubuntu...

ArchLinux (and arch derivatives like Archbang, Antergos or Chakra Linux) will have even better support as they get new software/drivers much faster than even Fedora does.
https://www.archlinux.org/
http://antergos.com/ (Pre-configured ArchLinux distrobution)

Romeru · Feb 3, 2014

skittle :

Again would advise against proprietary driver unless you absolutely need it.
Proprietary driver is a mess, difficult to install and requires to rebuild kernel module every time you upgrade kernel.
Too easy to Bork your system with proprietary driver...

The opensource drivers are default, they are already installed. Though I do not think 13.10 contains driver for your R9 series.
Performance with latest opensource drivers is pretty good. ~75% compared to proprietary driver.
Ubuntu also does not ship with 2D acceleration software "glamor-egl".

You can get latest opensource drivers and glamor-egl for ubuntu here: (specifically the R9 series uses the driver called "radeonsi" ; older cards use driver "radeon")
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/

Or you can use a distrobution that includes them by default like Fedora or ArchLinux.
Really you cannot be surprised that Ubuntu does not have bleeding edge software support for latest hardware!

http://fedoraproject.org/en/
Strongly recommend Fedora for newer hardware over Ubuntu...

ArchLinux (and arch derivatives like Archbang, Antergos or Chakra Linux) will have even better support as they get new software/drivers much faster than even Fedora does.
https://www.archlinux.org/
http://antergos.com/ (Pre-configured ArchLinux distrobution)

Right, so i suppose i could run other distributions in virtualbox and try them out? Ubuntu is the only distribution that I've ever tested, so I'd gladly like to try out others.

skittle · Feb 3, 2014

Romeru :

Yes, of course. You can also try them via LiveUSB or LiveCD...

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