How to install Radeon 3670 HD graphics drivers for Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit with OpenGL 2.0 support?

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Published on 2012-10-22T03:52:07Z Indexed on 2012/10/22 5:16 UTC
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I've been having trouble with getting graphics drivers to work that support OpenGL 2.0. I've had some luck with the Ubuntu drivers, however these only support OpenGL 1.3. I thought I would document the methods that I have tried both to see if anyone else has ideas, and to save time for people with a similar problem.

System details:

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) 64 bit
Kernel Linux 2.6.32-44-generic
GNOME 2.30.2
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Attempted Methods

The methods I have tried are:

1. Installing Proprietary Drivers using the "Hardware Drivers" (Jockey) GUI

This GUI offers an "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" however any attempts to install it result in a "Sorry, installation of this driver failed" error. The log file is here.

There is an Ask Ubuntu question that covers this scenario, and notes that there is a known bug with Jockey.

2. Installing the Proprietary Drivers manually

The answer to the question above linked to this wiki page, which gives instructions for installing Catalyst 12.6. This supported hardware list states that the 3670 is not supported in 12.6, and 12.4 must be used. This is somewhat confusing, as AMD's website suggests that the 12.6 driver should be installed for the 3670. There have been user reports that R600 (the GPU inside the 3670 card) doesn't work with 12.6, so I'm sticking with 12.4.

I'm following these instructions to install the proprietary drivers on Lucid. I downloaded the 12.4 driver from the AMD website. Building the package worked fine, generating the fglrx, fglrx-dev, fglrx-amdcccle, and fglrx-modaliases deb packages successfully. However, when I try to install these using dpkg it gives me these errors. The make log referenced in the error is here.

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