I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and had the unsupported hardware watermark issue with a Radeon 6770 plus fan speed control for the card did not work.
The fix in the bug description did not work for me but instead corrupted the fglrx driver. After running the script, X froze and I could not kill it and could not switch to a terminal. Subsequent reboots went straight to a crashed state. I made a backup of the .so file so was able to restore a working system by rebooting into recovery mode and restoring the backup. I then tried to uninstall and reinstall fglrx and that did not get rid of the issues. Finally, I tried uninstalling the Ubuntu version of fglrx and installing version 13.4 from AMD's website and thad did fix both the image overlay and the fan speed control issue. AMD Driver: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx The Install Instructions I Followed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI Notes about the 13.4 install process. - "Install driver" worked. - "Make Package" option did not work (missing dh). - No need to run amdcccle -- the old xorg.conf worked fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098561 Title: "Unsupported hardware" watermark appears when FGLRX is installed on 13.04 Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “fglrx-installer-updates” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On the latest daily release of Raring, a watermark/overlay shows in the bottom-right corner of the screen when fglrx or fglrx-updates is installed. It reads "Unsupported hardware" and has the AMD logo above it on top of a semi-transparent black background. This watermark is essentially equivalent to the "Testing use only" that appears when the proprietary beta drivers from AMD's website are installed. Therefore, the same workaround applies: [Workaround] Step 1) Create and save shell script with the following contents: #!/bin/sh DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER done Step 2) Make the script executable Step 3) Run the script Step 4) Log out and log back in ---- If the above workaround doesn't work for you, an alternative is to try the version of /etc/ati/control from the fglrx that shipped with Quantal. Step 1) Save a backup of the old control file, just in case -- sudo cp /etc/ati/control /etc/ati/control.watermark Step 2) Download the Quantal fglrx source package from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/fglrx- installer/2:9.000-0ubuntu3/+files/fglrx-installer_9.000.orig.tar.gz -- you will NOT need to build or install it. Step 3) Open that tar file with Archive Manager. Find etc/ati/control and extract it. Step 4) Copy the freshly extracted version of control to /etc/ati/control then restart your system. [Original Description] After upgrading to raring and installing the latest fglrx package from the archive I get a AMD branded overlay in the bottom RHS of the screen with the message 'Unsupported hardware'. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: fglrx-updates 2:9.010-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 11 13:27:06 2013 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-07 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1098561/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
