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Trying to use the Radeon 8790M on my Dell Latitude E6540 running Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring). This laptop also has an Intel adapter (for power saving). lspci gives: 

$ lspci | grep VGA 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Mars [Radeon HD 8790M]

Tried using the standard fglrx and fglrx-update and aticonfig results in (in a message box): 

aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

Trying AMD's drivers always renders the same result: 

Your graphics adaper is not supported by this driver. Installation will not proceed.

There is no 3D acceleration, as evident by running glxgears: 

$ glxgears 
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request:  12
Current serial number in output stream:  12

This may be an issue of the multi-adapter situation, but I'm not sure how to resolve this.

stanga
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Indeed patience was the solution.

ATI just published an updated driver (13.8 beta2), which installs successfully.

stanga
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I suppose you have installed AMD Catalyst™ 13.4 Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver. Read the Release Notes for Catalyst™ 13.4. It does not support the AMD Radeon 8000 series. May be you should try installing AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 LINUX Beta Driver. It supports 8000 series according to the link. Warning: 13.8 is still in beta stage.

Yash
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