Questions related to the ATI graphics and motherboard chipsets and the related drivers.
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My TV has been detected as a laptop
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 today and had issues with overscanning/underscanning on my tv connected with HDMI. i have a Sapphire HD 4765 graphics card so i tried to install the amd driver to control ...
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 450
I've just instaled Ubuntu 13.04 on vaio with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 450, now I need help with instaling drivers for this graphics
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Desktop won't load up
Let me start off by saying that I am a complete newbie of all things Linux. I have an old IBM ThinkPad t30 i wanted to install and learn up. I downloaded the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 13.04. I ...
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Doing “sudo amdconfig --initial” makes ubuntu 12.04 reboot
I have been trying various amd drivers for my radeon hd 7770 ghz edition in 12.04.
all of them makes my gpu reboot the computer instantly when i do sudo amdconfig --initial, i know it must sound like ...
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Complete crash to black screen with cursor (no the mouse kind)
I'm not sure whether it's Steam that's causing this, or just a co-incidence. When I load up Steam it tells me some stuff about my OpenGL and decreaced performance, so I press OK, then the client loads ...
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Installation issues compaq presario 6016us
So I reformatted and dled all drivers from manufacturers website. However, the ethernet controller is not being installed properly.
I'm trying to install ubuntu 12-04 lt using the dvd, but the ...
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Ubuntu Update Manager fails to install upates (Version 12.04 LTS)
I am known about Ubuntu for quite a while but only a couple of months ago I started using it more often as my secondary OS.
Anyway, my problem is that the update manager keeps failing to install the ...
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Mouse cursor wraps from right to left side of screen after installing ATI's fglrx
Afetr installing newest fglrx driver from ATI's website my mouse cursor wraps from right to left side of the screen. Do you have any solution for this problem?
I've already removed fglrx and cursor ...
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Are there any updated drivers for my video card?
My card is an MSI R5450-MD1GD3H/LP. It is a bit low end... It's a Radeon 5450 GPU. Anyway it needs an updated driver, I think. Is there a command. In settings it says my driver is "Gallium 0.4 on AMD ...
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Brightness adjustment crashes 13.04
I'm using ubuntu 13.04 64 bit on a Dell Studio 1558 with a ATI/AMD 5400 series graphics card running the AMD 13.4 graphics drivers and sometimes when I try to adjust the screen brightness, the entire ...
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Battery reduced by 50%> How to make my battery last longer than windows 7 for HP pavilion g7? [duplicate]
I have a HP Pavilion g7-1204sa 17.3 inch Laptop PC AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Processor, RAM 6GB.
I am attempting to make my laptop to last longer on Lubuntu or Ubuntu OS than windows 7. It currently ...
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confusing warnings after catalyst driver 13.4 installation
Because of upgrading to the latest 13.04 64bit kernel, the catalyst drivers had to be reinstalled with the advice on: What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)? ; ...
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Switched graphics card, now major problems
I have an old nVidia 9600GT, which I pulled out of my computer dual booting with Windows 7 and 13.04. I then plugged in a HD6670. I didn't think to uninstall drivers in 13.04, so I started my computer ...
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ati mobility radeon x2300 diver for sony vaio
Is there ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 driver for my ubuntu 12.04 (notebook sony vaio vgn-cr31sr)?
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Disable dedicated video card without installing drivers
So, Ubuntu doesn't come with drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 5650 (mobility), and I tried about 3 different drivers, and all failed.
My question is, can I just disable my ATI video card and use the ...
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How can I begin to troubleshoot graphic display glitches
I've had this graphic display issue for a while but it's never really been a huge pain to try and troubleshoot it because it happens rarely.
I've now plugged my PC into the AV receiver so I can ...
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fglrx doesnt find libc6
I have a big problem with amd drivers on Ubuntu 13.04
I just generated the catalyst packages for raring using this command (the problem is not limited to beta 13.6, it happens with 13.4 version too):
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Can I run these games on my system? [closed]
I have an Ubuntu PC with these specs: HP G62-378CA .
I would like to know if I would be able to run Team fortress 2 and/or Counter Strike Source.
Thanks.
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Blank Screen after GUI Install [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 x64 without a problem at all and I wanted to install the GUI (Ubuntu-Desktop).
I followed the below Steps:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
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How to install my ATI graphic card?
my laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650, and I've tried many ways to install the drivers but nothing has worked for me, how can I do it?
Also, I'm not sure why but when I put 'lspci -vvnn | grep ...
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The system is running in low-graphics mode on hybrid gpu
im running ubuntu 13.04 on my Sony VPCSB37_GA with intel and amd Graphic cards
I followed this tutorial so i can switch between intel and amd and it was working good, till yesterday.
now i can only ...
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Unable to install drivers
Same problem as many times before. However, this time my problem is that i am unable to start the installation in Terminal.
I have done all the preparations to install the drivers, extractions etc ...
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Ubuntu version for ATI Radeon 9200 video card
What is the highest version of Ubuntu that I can install in my Pentium 4 laptop with an ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200 video card? I tried to install 13.04 but I couldn't start the GUI. I read that there ...
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Performance issues on Ubuntu 12.04 with multiple displays
I have a desktop with an Asus 4870 graphics card and two displays hooked up (a 23" Samsung SyncMaster 2333 and a 17" iiyama ProLite E430) with extended desktop. However, I am having severe performance ...
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Kubuntu 13.04 Live USB works, graphics crash when installed
I'm trying to install Kubuntu 13.04 on my laptop from a live USB. The live USB works fine, graphics, wireless etc. It all works. Installation works as well, but when I try to start the newly installed ...
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Open Source driver hybrid card AMD Radeon HD 7730
I have been working on my gpu switching system for a while. I have recently decided to stick with the open source driver. Those drivers were taken from the repo of Xorg edgers. OK, i have followed all ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Unity High Resource Usage
When I'm trying to switch windows by clicking on the icon in the Unity bar, it shows up the open windows and I can click on the one I want to switch to. But when I do that, my computer hangs up, for ...
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Desktop doesnt' load after installing ATI Driver [duplicate]
I installed ATI Radeon HD 3650 on Ubuntu 12.10, 32-bit using following commands:
cd lib/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers
unzip *.zip
chmod +x *.run
sudo ./*.run
but after restarting the system, I ...
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What drivers do I need? How do I install them?
I have been trying for quite some time to install AMD-drivers to my Ubuntu 13.04 computer. A lot of try-and-fail have been done and a lot of tutorials have been read, and a lot of questions have been ...
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ATI RADEON HD 3600 DRIVER FOR UBUNTU [duplicate]
does anyone know how to install "ATI RADEON HD 3600" Driver on ubuntu 12.10 , 32bit version ?
where should i download it and how should i install ?
thanks ;
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Ubuntu 13.04 with old (radeon HD 4850) graphic card
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 and I think I may have issues with the graphic card.
Its fan is just running very fast (and noisy).
I tried to check the temperature using sensors and got the ...
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Which installer will install ubuntu on an AMD E450 APU with Radeon 2 GB RAM on samsung machine
I want to install Ubuntu to install Oracle database for learning purpose. I have Samsung machine with AMD E450 APU with Radeon 2 GB Ram.
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Software Updater window not displaying, though open in 13.04
I have a very interesting problem that has just recently developed.
I am routinely getting software updates and I can see the software updater window is available to be displayed on the task bar in ...
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Problem after Logging screen. Ubuntu 13.04
I have some problem with my Ubuntu 13.04, after installing it with Oracle VM Virtual Box.
So, after I have installed it, I reboot my virtual machine, and I saw the Log - in screen. But when I typed ...
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Loaded ATI Driver and now all I have is the desktop. How do I get everything back?
I am running 13.04 and decided to upgrade from the onboard video on my motherboard to a new ATI HD6570 card. I downloaded the latest drivers from AMD and installed them and switched the BIOS to ...
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Can't get second monitor to work: Raedon HD 7470
I'm getting confused about why it wont work. We have a Dell partner, and we asked specifically for dual monitor (*they sold us two monitors at the same time!). I knew Ubuntu support would be ok,, but ...
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Radeon HD mobility driver 13.1 Install [duplicate]
Looking to install the Radeon HD mobility driver 13.1 on Ubuntu 13.04
Looking to install this driver:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/legacy-radeon_linux.aspx
Is it the same ...
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How can I avoid having to reset compiz/unity after each linux-headers upgrade?
I've been using Ubuntu (currently 13.04) for several months now. I was wondering if it's typical to have to reset compiz and unity (with dfconf reset -f /org/compiz
and setsid unity) after every ...
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12.10: two monitors; one works, one only displays solid color
I have a one-day-old 12.10 install on a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon 6450 graphics card, and two Samsung monitors (one connected through VGA, one DVI). I also have disk encryption enabled, and I'm ...
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How to enable multiple displays with Catalyst drivers in Ubuntu 13.04?
First, I installed Ubuntu 13.04.
I have an ATI Radeon HD 7850.
The open source drivers allowed multiple displays, but were horrendously laggy (even opening a browser window took several seconds). ...
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When I turn on Ubuntu 13.04, my screen just stays at the purple screen [duplicate]
To be honest, I have no clue how to use Ubuntu or any Linux systems. I downloaded it two days ago and installed it yesterday. My computer and specs are:
Lenovo IdeaPad Z585 (59363062) Notebook
AMD ...
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Problem with AMD HD 8xxx Series graphics card
My problem is as follows: I bought a Dell inspiron 17R 5721. So everything at least seemed to work well with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit until I tried to run some 3D software.
This laptop has a AMD ...
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Unity Dash Graphical Glitches in Ubuntu 13.04 with ATI Graphics
I have a very noticeable transparent glitch in the Unity Dash. It does no transparency at all and instead shows a green to red color transition with black checkered boxes. This is an entirely ...
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Ubuntu Gnome desktop messed with second display
This used to work some time ago. I could connect a second screen on the display port interface of my laptop (via display port -> DVI adapter), then use the catalyst control center and select "Single ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 crash after a while (Black Screen)
I have an Inspiron 7520. I got an AMD Radeon HD 7730m 2go with a Intel HD 4000 running on Open Source driver updated from X-edgers repository. I got also a I7 2.4ghz overclocking to 3.1ghz.
The ...
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Fglrx - bad return status for kernel
I have tried installing the ATI Catalyst drivers on Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit version (dual boot with Windows 7 x64 and wubi).
I have tried both the versions of the Catalyst Drivers, 12.8 and 13.1
In ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 & ATI driver 13.6 beta only intel card works [closed]
I have manually downloaded and installed the catalyst 13.6 driver by creating deb files. Now if I try to boot I get the following error with Xorg:
http://pastebin.com/hZQVqQ1y
But if I switch to the ...
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No virtual TTY on 13.04 (fglrx)
my tty (ctrl+alt+f1,f2) don't work. They're not just black, they don't react at all. No cursor, no nothing.
dmesg gave me these errors but Google didn't seem to provide a good answer.
My current ...
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Second monitor (VGA) isn't detected ubuntu 12.04 ATI Radeon HD 5400
I have tried several solutions but nothing works. First of all, I'm using ATI Radeon HD 5400. The first monitor (which works) is connected to the graphic card by DVI, the second monitor (which isn't ...
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Problem with AMD Graphics Drivers on 12.04 x86, weird graphics card detection
I am new to Ubuntu and wanted to install some graphics card drivers to see if it would make my games run better. I was unable to get the AMD Catalyst driver from the official site to install, so I got ...
