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ATI 4850 on 13.04 64bit

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To those that can help,I am guessing that you have seen a variant of this problem many times before. However after doing my best to try to use the various fixes mentioned across various pages, I have finally given up!
The problem is that I cannot run unity - because I cannot install the legacy drivers properly in 13.04.
When I input sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy step after doing the previous 3 steps (which seem to run fine) I get the following output:

$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  fglrx-amdcccle-legacy fglrx-legacy-dev

The following NEW packages will be installed

  fglrx-amdcccle-legacy fglrx-legacy fglrx-legacy-dev

0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/72.4 MB of archives.

After this operation, 24.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-legacy-dev.

(Reading database ... 201264 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking fglrx-legacy-dev (from .../fglrx-legacy-dev_2%3a8.97.100.7-makson1~raring2_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking fglrx-legacy (from .../fglrx-legacy_2%3a8.97.100.7-makson1~raring2_amd64.deb) ...

One or more files have been altered since installation.

Uninstall will not be completed. See /etc/ati/fglrx-uninstall.log for details.

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-legacy_2%3a8.97.100.7-makson1~raring2_amd64.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-amdcccle-legacy.

Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle-legacy (from .../fglrx-amdcccle-legacy_2%3a8.97.100.7-makson1~raring2_amd64.deb) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-legacy_2%3a8.97.100.7-makson1~raring2_amd64.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help is much appreciated. I am an Ubuntu noob.
Thanks.

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answered 3 Years ago raacket · Accepted Answer

Run:

sudo dpkg --configure --pending

And report back what was the result.
It is a package manager problem but I would be surprised if you could use that driver on your system. As far as AMD is concerned you have legacy hardware. When people use these proprietary drivers there seems to be lot of problems with hardware that falls into this category because AMD has dropped the support.

Try using open source drivers:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon

But remember that when you try different drivers you should have only one installed at a time or there will be trouble.