hey im trying to update my video drivers but it wont update when i go to software and updates im using ubuntu 14.10 and my gpu is r9 270 i can see the different drivers but when i click them it just resests when i click apply
Which drivers do you have and how did you installed them initially? Was it through the AMD site or through the driver manager ?
If you have applied updates recently, try restarting. I've noticed this issue several times and this has usually been the solution. If that doesn't work, try updating and upgrading, then restarting.
i tried to install them through the updater for ubuntu and when i try to play games on steam it says it doesnt support opengl
I am a bit confused here. Did you try to update a driver you already have installed yourself or are you now using the driver the OS came in? The OS come with the open drivers for AMD and these would not work correctly with steam sometimes and anyway do not give good performance for gaming. If you want to use steam you need the proprietary fglrx driver. That is why I asked which driver do you have installed. If you want to install the proprietary driver go to the ¨additional drivers¨ application from the dash and choose to install fglrx-updates. Its a one click thing.
If you have already installed a driver yourself then :
Which updater do you mean you tried to use?The updater only updates installed software. Maybe you mean the ¨software center¨ or the ¨additional drivers¨.
The ¨additional drivers¨ is the better choice since in the software center you see every sub-option available and could be confusing if you do not know which one you actually need. In either way you should have installed the fglrx-updates. If this is not the case remove what ever you installed, go to the ¨additional drivers¨ and pick fglrx-updates. : like so (https://askubuntu.com/questions/47506/how-do-i-install-additional-drivers)
If you already have done all these things you might want to try to re-install fglrx-updates and try again.
He could post the output of
lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'and we'd know exactly what drivers he is using.
@ninja85a Could you do this?
i typed that in and i got "kernal driver in use: radeon" i think the driver problem is fixed im on linux now and tried to install the driver through additonal drivers and it seems to be working now well thanks for your suggestions :D well im on the drivers with the fglrx updates and steam still says i wont beable to play some games very well?
What the steam error message? The same as before? Maybe try to purge steam and reinstall it...
Pretty handy and straight forward video I found for installing updated AMD video drivers via terminal.
Maybe it might be some help.