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I have tried to upgrade from kernel 3.2 to kernel 3.4 (here) and after that installing fglrx drivers 13.1 (compatible up to kernel 3.5). Here are the steps I followed:

  1. Removing (purging) existing drivers

    sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*

    rebooted

  2. updated open drivers:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

    rebooted

  3. installed some dependencies and then tried to install fglrx drivers:

    sudo sh amd-driver-installer-*.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

At this point the installation stuck at: 

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.0-0304-generic

nothing happens and I have to stop installation and I need to use dpkg-reconfigure -a.

Can you tell me how install kernel and fglrx drivers in the correct way? Do I need to know anything else to do that?

Thanks

Frank
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Frank, I don't know about rolling back the kernel to 3.4, but you need to run this code to establish dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases

and this if you have 64-bit 12.04:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Then you can try this: https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx if you have an ATI/AMD graphics card HD 2xxx to HD 4xxx. Hope this helps. This is all contained in my question: ati catalyst 13.1 driver on 12.04 LTS w/ 3.5.0-25 kernel

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