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Install AMD Catalyst 13.12 Driver with patch on Ubuntu 13.10

This is a copy-paste post from this one only for my personal reference and just in case the original post is gone for any reason. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download  amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.zip Extract it and you will get  amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run chmod +x amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst cd catalyst Apply  the patch  manualy: at the end of the file  catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c , starting with line 990, there is #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,6,3) if ( ! ACPI_SUCCESS ( acpi_get_table_with_size ( id , 0 , & hdr , & tbl_size ))) #else tbl_size = 0x7fffffff ; if ( ! ACPI_SUCCESS ( acpi_get_table ( id , 0 , & hdr ))) ... delete everything to the end of the file and replace with this #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,6,3)

Installing Git's latest version on Ubuntu

Here are the commands to run to install the latest version of the source-control system, Git, on Ubuntu. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties #I'm not sure if this line is necessary sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git