[SOLVED] [Help] Cant change my graphics card drivers

Hello,

First I'd like to thank the Zorin dev team for making this OS. Very smooth and looks great! Best OS I've tried, coming from a former Windows user .

So, I've got an issue on my hands.. I see the options to change the drivers, but they are all kind of greyed out and i cant select them. Is there some kind of a fix for this?

Additionally, I've made a couple extra icons on my taskbar. The stock buttons work every time, but mine dont always.. like %40 of the time itll work, other times it will give me a loading circle but stop after a couple seconds without opening the application. Any help here?

Thanks in advance.

SuperYam

Does anyone know about this issue?

What GC do you have?

Unless I'm mistaking you can find that infromation with

Code:

sudo lshw -sanitize -c display

and it should show something like this

Code:

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:50 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:dc000000-ddffffff ioport:ac00(size=128) memory:fba80000-fbafffff


I know mine isn't anything special, but there is no onboard support from the mobo, and it takes the load off my CPU which matters cause this is my server =].

After you provide us this information we should be able to help further.

In addition to this you may want to have a look at this great post install guide.
http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2054

Thank you very much for the reply Linx!

I typed that in and got this..

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Trinity [Radeon HD 7480D]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:51 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:ff700000-ff73ffff

to me its seems that the proprietary drivers (fglrx) are already in use, but i cant select them in system settings and it says no proprietary drivers are in use . Minecraft runs just as slow as before so I dont think anything has changed.

Please let me know what you think.

Have you looked at trying to get the drivers from the website?
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86

Personally when I am doing a fresh install, the only drivers I go to the website for is the display drivers.
I don't know if it is an issue with AMD, but I know with nvidia after I install drivers from the site, when I update the kernel it breaks things, but it isn't to hard to fix. Just be aware ahead of time.

Yeah, thats where i got mine. Thanks for the heads up.

Back to sulking in my 10-20 FPS minecraft cave then ?

On that note, what version of java are you using?
I find openjdk tends to work best for me.

I think im running openjdk 7, but i hava Oracle java installed too (for Wine). how can i check which one is active?

sorry for the potato there, searched it myself and im running openjdk 7... would trying to change the drivers from the terminal work?

The full guide for minecraft here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/198476/how-to- ... tribution/

Zorin 9 is based on Ubuntu 14.04

Thank you for the reply Swarf. I have already read that guide, but the issue is that i cant select any other drivers. the options are there, but greyed out. i am stuck on the bottom, open source driver. I will try to log in as root and try to change the settings then... ?

I am wondering if somehow you are logged in as guest or you have a corrupt install?

Solved!
I simply had to type "sudo apt-get install fglrx" per this thread; http://askubuntu.com/questions/319671/h ... a-terminal . Driver was automatically selected and didnt need to reboot.

Thank you all for the help!

Hi SuperYam, thanks for keeping us posted! Have marked as [SOLVED].