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[Mathew Hodson <mathew.hodson@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  ubuntu 14.04 broken graphics driver via additional drivers radeon hd
  6250

Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  originally thought mine was the same as the # 1511301 bug so i left
  comments there about it but after reading through it a bunch of times,
  mine is very similar but might be different enough that you might want
  a separate bug report. hope i'm doing the right thing re bug
  reporting. let me know

  i;m amd radeon hd 6250 ubuntu 14.04
  so i went into additional drivers for my sound wasn't working, and thought i would try the open source amd driver, but after a reboot everything was all stretched and intensely slow so went back in to additional drivers to revert back but it wouldn't let me do it. it wouldn't let me me select any other option than the open source and then when i rebooted again a manual driver option appeared and wouldn't let me select any other option and the additional drivers page looked different than it had.

  when i opened the software updater to get back into additional drivers
  and it did say it wanted to update a driver in updates so i let it,
  but it said it failed, but it kept wanting to update even thought it
  said it already had, and the updates kept failing, and saying go to
  package manager.

  accidentally opened software center and it prompted me to fix problem
  and then couldn't fix it either and kept opening itself back up again
  to try and fix it

  found the broken package in package manager fglrx-amdcccle and tried
  to reinstall but got this error in package manager ( E: Internal
  Error, No file name for fglrx-amdcccle:i386l)

  did sudo apt-get -f, but no joy, said there were missing packages.

  last thing i tried in terminal before i gave up tonight sudo apt-get
  install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

  and this is what happened (which looked very much like what happened
  when i tried to reinstall it in package manager)

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  fglrx-amdcccle is already the newest version.
  fglrx-amdcccle set to manually installed.
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    account-plugin-windows-live libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl
    libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl libmpdec2 libupstart1
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    fglrx
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/22.9 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 102 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  (Reading database ... 1320084 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb ...
  Moving ati dir to /etc for the fglrx-core transition
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD said
  to report issues with 'additional drivers' in the updater in launchpad
  bugs so i ended up here.

  did the ubuntu-bug fglrx-installer but it says it cannot report a bug
  on a package that is not installed...and around and around i go
  lol....

  HELP! im only a geekling so i've done as much as i feel brave enough
  to do.

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