Questions tagged [amd-graphics]
For questions related to AMD graphic cards, their drivers and related problems.
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What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?
I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver?
There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over ...
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Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04 and newer on AMD graphics
I have 14.04.5/16.04 or newer and an AMD GPU. I'm not getting the performance I want, and some programs say they need things like OpenCL.
I've heard about fglrx, but if I try to install it on my ...
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Is my ATI graphics card supported in Ubuntu?
I have an ATI graphics card and I want to know if it is supported and what kind of drivers should I be running to get the best features out of it.
Is my card supported in Ubuntu and what drivers will ...
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?
On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 and higher: fglrx (legacy) unsupported, what to do?
After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is ...
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Why does my laptop with AMD Radeon HD 76xx graphics get overheated when using Ubuntu?
I bought a new laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 7. I love working on Ubuntu and hence installed 12.04 on my laptop. I can work on Windows for 6 hours at a stretch and feel the laptop being ...
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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx!
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx! What happened?
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How to remove the “AMD Testing use only” watermark?
I've installed the latest catalyst driver (beta) following the step in this guide for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal.
My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially ...
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Performance being really choppy with ATI drivers
I just updated to the latest version (11.04) yesterday, and ever since then, the system has been really choppy.
I used to have 10.10 installed, and that was running smooth.
Anyone also experiencing ...
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Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04?
The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the "Volcanic Islands" cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX ...
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How to make an xorg.conf file
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I need to make a custom xorg.conf file. By default, there is not an xorg.conf file on my system. I know what I need to write in the config, but I just don't know how ...
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After the upgrade to 17.10 I only get a black screen. How do I fix this?
I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade.
NOTE: This ...
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How to install AMD graphic drivers on Ubuntu 18.04
I had always been a Windows user, But yesterday I downloaded and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this page, But I can't find a way to install AMD graphic drivers,
Right now Linux only works in recovery ...
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OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems. (steam) AMD DRIVER
When I start steam in a terminal, I get the following error messages
charlie@SteamMPL:~$ steam
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/charlie/.steam/steam»: Es un directorio
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/...
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Unity does not start in Ubuntu 13.04
I have upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and I cannot use Unity. I have tried the proprietary driver, both from the official sources and from AMD's website. I have also tried using the open source x.org driver,...
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ATI/Intel hybrid graphics 16.04 LTS
Since I have an onboard Intel graphics card, and a ATI Radeon display controller, I was wondering if I could switch between the two as my graphics in use, as I could in 14.04 LTS through ATI Catalyst?
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Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and at first when I go to check the system information I used to have (unknown) on the graphic card section, I used the synaptic manager and downloaded the fglrx, after that I ...
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How can I disable ATI discrete graphic GPU at startup in Ubuntu 14.04 without BIOS?
I could disable ATI discrete graphics in Ubuntu 13.10 with this command:
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
But in Ubuntu 14.04 it does not work. cat /sys/kernel/debug/...
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Unity missing? Can't see top or side panels [duplicate]
I just removed some effects using ccsm, switched to the AMD proprietary driver, rebooted and after I log in, the unity panel is no longer there. If I hit the windows key or the alt key, nothing ...
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How to install Radeon Open Source Driver?
I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots.
I uninstalled the proprietary ...
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Very Low Temperature Reading for graphics driver using lm-sensors
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 and got the package lm-sensors. I mainly did this to monitor if my laptop was overheating. Each time I run it, it shows a very low temperature reading (the same every ...
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Two ATI radeon cards on 10.04
I would like to use two different cards from ATI on my desktop.
One card is integrated with the mainboard and second is bought as a standalone VGA.
Does it have any possilibity to succeed?
Thanks,
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At Present Which is the best choice for a Ubuntu graphics card, AMD or nVidia?
I've been using nVidia cards in Ubuntu boxes for years. The closed source drivers have been great and I've even found my way around the nvidia-settings program when I've needed to. I'm now in the ...
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14.10 wine and fglrx conflict
I've just updated to 14.10 from 14.04, and have come across a problem having both wine and fglrx installed
The wine dependencies that are causing the problem go like this
wine > wine1.6 > wine1.6-...
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How can I speed up Unity with an ATI card?
I've been using Unity for two days... but all the apps and Unity itself runs very slowly I've installed Catalyst 11.4 (Ati Radeon HD 4350, 2GB RAM, Core 2 Duo @1.86 Ghz, 12 Gb Partition, 1 Gb to Swap) ...
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How can I enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD?
When playing high definition video (720p and 1080p) the CPU reaches 100% and freezes the image at regular intervals.
According to the manufacturer this accelerator is capable of hardware acceleration ...
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Setting GPU fan speed using free ATI driver? [duplicate]
Is it possible to set the GPU fan speed using the default free ati driver?
My card (X1900) was deprecated in the fglrx drivers a while back.
The free drivers seem to work with 3D, Compiz and such, ...
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amdgpu-pro-install on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with R9 285 and RX 480
I have a problem installing AMD GPU PRO driver for my Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 system. The screen is going black after installation and reboot.
The image in GUI mode is incomplete and mostly black with ...
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Ubuntu freezes randomly with audio playing in the background
I am hardcore Windows user and recently moved to Ubuntu to try Linux, I can see how Linux is better, I am loving it.
However, I have been experiencing problems with Ubuntu going unresponsive. ...
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16.04 ; power off discrete graphics (ATI/AMD)
On 12.04 I used to utilize this procedure, to power off my ATI graphics and prevent my system from overheating, it worked fine.
After installing 16.04, I've been trying everything I could find on the ...
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How do I turn off the Radeon GPU on my HP Pavilion DM4?
I have a HP DM4 Beats Edition running Ubuntu 11.10. The HP Pavillion runs on-board Intel graphics as well as Radeon GPU.
From what I have read it appears that the Radeon GPU is draining my battery ...
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Why is Ubuntu Mate 16.04 runs hotter than Windows 7 on my Core2 and ATI Mobility Radeon 3xxx laptop?
Why is my Ubuntu Mate 16.04 runs hotter than my Windows 7 on my Core2 Penryn P8700 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 laptop?
I ran lm-sensors and found that the GPU temp consistently hits 63 and 64 C, ...
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How do I remove the FGLRX drivers after I've installed them by hand?
I installed ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run downloaded from the ATI Website.
However I installed the generic version instead of building a distribution specific installer.
Now I have the ...
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Revert to open source graphics drivers - options greyed out 14.04
I tried switching to the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers using the Software Center > Edit > Software Sources > Additional drivers window in 14.04, which left me with a scary black-as-the-night ...
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How can I get my monitor's maximum resolution without the proprietary AMD graphic driver installed?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I have an AMD Radeon 5570 HD graphic card. Actually, the default open source REDWOOD drivers aren't allowing me to choose my monitor's maximum screen resolution(which is 1366 ...
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How does the fglrx package's version relate to AMD's version numbers, like Catalyst 12.3?
When I learn about a new version of AMD's graphics driver, I usually see something like "Catalyst 12.3." However, the fglrx package in Ubuntu has a version like 2:8.960-0.
Are these two version ...
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What is needed to use Raven Ridge Ryzen 5 2400G?
Last week I replaced my Ryzen 5 1600 with a Ryzen 5 2400G. Since then I'm struggling to get the GPU working.
I've tried 16.04.3 vanilla with HWE-kernel 4.13. It works out-of-the-box, but without ...
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How to fix error with ATI driver "Error of failed request"?
I installed the fglrx catalyst proprietary driver via this link : http://cisight.com/install-amd-radeon-hd-6470m-and-solve-overheat-on-ubuntu-1110-oneiric/
Running fglrxinfo or glxinfo | grep render ...
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ATI graphics card, with gnome shell, screen flickers
After installing gnome shell, without any problem, after log in the fonts are missing and it looks like crap...nothing is readable.
Don't want to make it a double post, because my issue is similar to ...
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No sound through HDMI out, 13.04
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my media PC, and I successfully installed Catalyst 13.4 and everything works great except I get no sound out of HDMI out. In the sound dash there are 3 options but ...
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Installation of newest AMD drivers fails
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I'm trying to update my drivers to the latest version provided by AMD. I couldn't find a way to simply update them, so I decided to uninstall them completely by doing this:
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Ubuntu 14.04 has visual artifacts and freezes
I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my laptop Sony Vaio VPCEA16FG. I have been getting system freezes (everything including display, mouse, keyboard stops working and I have to do a restart ...
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Installing Oibaf's Drivers for AMD R5 M430 on Ubuntu 16.04
So I have the AMD R5 M430 video card, but there is no official driver so I wanted to seek some open source drivers, and I found this Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04/16.10 and AMD graphics and after all I read ...
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What Packages/How Do I Uninstall Propriety AMD Catalyst Driver [duplicate]
How do I go back to the open source driver?
I installed AMD driver following on screen instructions but have a little shaded square in bottom right hand corner that says "AMD Unsupported hardware".
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How-to remove "amd unsupported hardware" without reinstalling the driver? [duplicate]
I installed driver from Additional drivers.... AMD Radeon HD 6450
My resolution is at maximum and Catalist Control Center is working but I have AMD Unsupported hardware image on the right bottom of ...
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Intel/AMD Hybrid graphics Ubuntu 18.04
Working through a minefield of information at the moment and need help.
I've got a Dell Latitude E5570 which is setup with Hybrid graphics, Intel/AMD as such:
$inxi -Fzx
Graphics: Card-1: Intel ...
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How can I force fullscreen on my right screen?
I have 2 screens: 17" on left and 22" screen on right side.
When I watch a movie with VLC and want to watch on full-screen on my 22" screen (the right one), I move my VLC window in right screen and ...
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How to install amd gpu drivers ubuntu 22.04 LTS
How do you install AMD GPU drivers for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Desktop)? It only installs the archive and not the drivers.
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14.04 gets black screen unless radeon.modeset=0
I can't use Ubuntu the normal way. Each time I boot it I need to set radeon to 0, or use nomodeset. I don't have the fglrx drivers (the Trusty kernel and X.org does not support it), only the open ones....
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