fglrx drivers not working after upgrading to ubuntu 14.04

[Tanmay Pandey]

I was on ubuntu 13.10 and was using manually installed amd beta graphics driver. Mfter y system has a hybrid Intel hd4400 and AMD Radeon 8670M graphics card. After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 it booted to black screen. On tty1 I tried to run fglrxinfo , it returned "Command not found"
Then I did
sudo apt-get -purge fglrx*
sudo reboot
after rebooting got the same problem
tried to install the same driver
using
sudo ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run
and followed the instruction, then got an error msg "installation failed"
tried manually building and installing, first it failed, then using Synaptic packet manager I fixed broken packages then tried to install , it installed , but on
sudo aticonfig --initial
it says unable to find command aticonfig
rebooted again and ran
fglrxinfo
again unable to find command.
Errors were found in processing
"Setting up fglrx (2:13.350-0ubuntu1) ...
Loading new fglrx-13.350 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.11.0-18-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:13.350-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up fglrx-dev (2:13.350-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-18-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ..."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: fglrx 2:13.350.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,staticswitcher,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,dbus]
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Apr 19 09:48:28 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-04-18 13:58:26,914 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 fglrx, 13.350.1: added
 vboxhost, 4.3.6, 3.11.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.6, 3.11.0-19-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.6, 3.11.0-20-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.6, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:05ea]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:05ea]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-29 (79 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3537
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-18-generic root=UUID=e26ce0e2-d94b-45e8-8567-4bd4e26aef35 ro recovery nomodeset
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/19/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: 0N7YKW
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A04
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd08/19/2013:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3537:pvrA04:rvnDellInc.:rn0N7YKW:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA04:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3537
dmi.product.version: A04
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52+git20140121.46d451c9-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.2.0~git20140331.ec4b8d16-0ubuntu0ricotz
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.2.0~git20140331.ec4b8d16-0ubuntu0ricotz
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.99+git20140317.bdc41204-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.911+git20140331.5c0623b5-0ubuntu0ricotz
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10+git20140220.480f0998-0ubuntu0sarvatt

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Abhirav Kumar (akabhirav)]

For me even after installing fglrx on my system none of the associated commands such as aticonfig or fglrxinfo are running.
Even when i run them manually by going to /usr/lib/flgrx/bin they say there is no hardware.

how ever lspci lists my graphics card properly name

[Abhirav Kumar (akabhirav)]

Even the proprietery driver downloaded from amd's website says that the hardware is not supported

[Abhirav Kumar (akabhirav)]

My status changed and came back around to hit me again.

I downloaded the drivers from AMD's website version 14.4 rev2 and installed it. It worked like a charm until I turned the switchable graphics into powersaving mode and rebooted my laptop and from then onward it never detects my hardware.

I have tried uninstalling and installing the same driver and my laptop starts in a low graphics mode

[Andrew (am-public-o)]

Ubuntu 14.04 will not work for me either. Tried every way possible. Upgrading to 14.10 and probably 15.04 as soon as it's released.

Should we just accept this will never be fixed, at least not for AMD and 14.04 ?

[Abhirav Kumar (akabhirav)]

Well that would suck, but I have seen similar expressions from people everywhere. Nothing seems to be working.