{"id":1417,"date":"2013-04-23T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:51:40","slug":"ubuntu-13-04-gnome-3-8-ati-hd5450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/23\/ubuntu-13-04-gnome-3-8-ati-hd5450\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 13.04 + Gnome 3.8 + ATI HD5450"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched from using OpenSuse 12, to using Ubuntu 13.04 on my desktop machine at work. In order to get everything working correctly I had to use the latest ATI beta drivers (13.3 Beta).<\/p>\n<p>After you unzip the downloaded file, simply run:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\"># .\/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run<\/div>\n<p>Initially the install script errored out, after it\u00c2\u00a0failed to locate &#8216;version.h&#8217;, so before I could successfully complete the driver install, I had to run:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\"># ln -s \/lib\/modules\/3.8.0-19-generic\/build\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/lib\/modules\/3.8.0-19-generic\/build\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/div>\n<p>Since these are beta drivers, they have a watermark in the lower right hand corner of each monitor. \u00c2\u00a0The solution to removing that watermark can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/206558\/how-to-remove-the-amd-testing-use-only-watermark\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have dual monitors as I do, once you boot into ubuntu you will want to configure them with the ATI Control Center:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\"># amdcccle<\/div>\n<p>In order to get the latest version of Gnome you can add the Gnome3 team ppa&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\">\n# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get update<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get upgrade<\/div>\n<p>If \u00c2\u00a0you want access to the latest bleeding edge applications and utilities , you can add the Ricotz testing ppa&#8217;s as well:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\">\n# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz\/testing<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get update<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get upgrade\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ricotz staging ppa&#8217;s can be used however, there is a chance that if you upgrade with these, you system may end up becoming unstable:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ex\">\n# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz\/staging<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get update<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get upgrade<\/div>\n<p>Finally, I ran into a bug in Gnome where my entire desktop background was gray\/white, in inorder to get that issue fixed I followed the advice given in the comments section of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJOoQPHSgxo\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched from using OpenSuse 12, to using Ubuntu 13.04 on my desktop machine at work. In order to get everything working correctly I had to use the latest ATI beta drivers (13.3 Beta). After you unzip the downloaded file, simply run: # .\/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run Initially the install script errored out, after it\u00c2\u00a0failed to locate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}