This note is about installing ATI Catalyst binary drivers to support a PCI-E Sapphire Toxic (Radeon R9 270X) Graphics Card on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
1. Download ATI Catalyst Beta Driver (v14.6 as at 2014-07-31). Note: I downloaded “linux-amd-catalyst-14.6-beta-v1.0-jul11.zip”, but once unpacked the ATI installer was named “amd-driver-installer-14.20-x86.x86_64.run”
2. Install the pre-requisites:
$ sudo apt-get install dh-make dh-modaliases execstack libc6-i386 lib32gcc1 xserver-xorg-dev
3. Open a terminal and run the following commands (I assume that you have downloaded the driver zip file to ~/Downloads):
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ unzip linux-amd-catalyst-14.6-beta-v1.0-jul11.zip
$ cd fglrx-14.20
$ sh amd-driver-installer-14.20-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/trusty
$ sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
$ sudo aticonfig --initial
$ sudo reboot
4. Once the system has restarted, login and open a terminal, then run:
$ sudo fglrxinfo
You should then see
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.4.12967 Compatibility Profile Context 14.20
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