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I had the beta drivers running previously and after a standard update it stopped working. What I've tried so far:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

Then downloaded drivers from Amd website and unzipped it and ran:

sudo ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/trusty
sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb

After this the Ubuntu BinaryDriverHowTo/AMD guide wants to make this:

aticonfig --initial

and it returns:

Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver.
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

The adapter is 280x and as said, it worked previously with the same drivers and with the same installation procedure.

Any ideas?

Braiam
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cukkimo
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Use this commands as root:

/usr/lib/fglrx/switchlibGL amd # or /usr/lib/fglrx/switchlibglx amd
reboot

And after rebooting, try to execute

aticonfig --initial
Abdelhak Bougouffa
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I managed to get it working by creating a few of the missing symbolic links:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig /usr/bin/aticonfig
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/ati/ /etc/ati

I was then able to run aticonfig as normal

Ken Wolf
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I had such message too just after a (re)installation of ATI driver (Catalyst). Try the following:

sudo apt-get -f install

My system:

Graphics: ASUS R7240-SL-2GD3-L (AMD Radeon R7 240) OS: KUbuntu 14.04 Graphics driver: AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver

ChapaikinVA
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I am on 16.04 (xenial) but had the same problems and probably the same solution. The only solution I found was to manually unpack the fglrx-core debian package and copy the /etc/ati/control and /etc/ati/atiapfxx files from that unpacked directory to the correct locations using sudo.

The deb packages that are installed end up in /var/cache/apt/archives/

So I moved to some new directory and did 

dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-core<some version number>.deb .
sudo cp etc/ati/atiapfxx etc/ati/control /etc/ati/

After that I was able to use aticonfig and also amdcccle started to work.

peschü
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