last thing i tried in terminal before i give up tonight sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
and this is what happened which looked like what happened when i tried to fix it in package manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done fglrx-amdcccle is already the newest version. fglrx-amdcccle set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: account-plugin-windows-live libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl libmpdec2 libupstart1 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: fglrx 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/22.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 102 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 1320084 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb ... Moving ati dir to /etc for the fglrx-core transition dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) i hope posting here for help is the right thing. this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD said to come and report if i had issues with additional drivers, but wasn't sure what i should do from that page so i just tried the above. was afraid to mess things up too bad. when i tried that beta from additional drivers years ago it messed things up so bad i only had black screen and it took five hours to figure out how to fix it from the bootup. couldn't tell you what i did that finally fixed it lol. thanks in advance for your help. this really sucks... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511301 Title: Failed to upgrade fglrx from 14.502 to 15.200 on Trusty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1511301/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
