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Hp ProBook - upon boot up screen is black, does not wake

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit After a fresh install on my laptop. Black screen on boot, no cursor, screen is off. I have to force close, then powering up for the second time the system will boot up fine. ...
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Can't login after installing AMD drivers in Ubuntu 15.10

As mentioned above, the login screen loops after installing the graphics drivers. I have tried to login via the terminal and purge it all again, but it does not help. I have tried three times, and all ...
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Help with AMD Catalyst 15.9 and screen tearing Ubuntu 15.04

I am running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 with the latest AMD Catalyst 15.9 on an HP Envy 15 with an AMD Radeon HD 7750m. I am somewhat of a noob with Linux and I've found solutions that led to some screen ...
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Trying to configure a HD 7470/8470 - Strange video refresh Title changeg and instability of video card [duplicate]

I've found BinaryDriverHowto/AMD. New items are in my comments .... I have got amd-driver-installer-catalyst-15-20.1046-x86.x86_64.run in my Downloads folder ready to run, but when I'm trying to ...
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How do I install AMD Drivers on Ubuntu 14.04?

I was planning on doing a Windows build but I had problems getting Daz to work so I'm here now. I'm trying to download the proprietary drivers for my AMD Radeon HD 6870 but nothing is working. I ...
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How to toggle easily between the AMD Catalyst driver and the open-source Radeon driver?

I've got an AMD Radeon R9 270X that works very well with the open-source Radeon driver. However, I am going to occasionally be using an OpenCL application that requires the proprietary Catalyst ...
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Catalyst 15.7: Could it run on Ubuntu 15.04

AMD just released Catalyst 15.7 Driver. Could it be installed and run on Ubuntu 15.04? Are there any known fails and restrictions? Officially 15.7 supports only Ubuntu 14.04.2.
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version.h does not show up after headers installation

I am trying to install catalyst drivers by Radeon and I fail because /lib/modules/3.13.0-45-generic/build/include/linux/version.h is missing. I tried following similar questions to find that I need to ...
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Login Loop after trying to install AMD catalyst proprietary driver on 14.04LTS

I am new to Ubuntu, unfortunately i made the error of installing the wrong driver for catalyst, and it didnt support my card. I uninstalled as per the wiki, but after that, trying to reinstall the ...
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AMD Hybrid catalyst driver installation for 14.10

Is there any worked procedure to install catalyst driver on AMD Hybrid with powerXpress on Utopic? I have tried the procedure explained in wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Trusty_Installation_Guide ...
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Can an sh (or index file) be used in CCC profiles instead of the binary?

I am trying to set custom graphical options in AMD Catalyst Control Center for a specific program. There is a single sh file that launches it but there are 4 completely different binaries (not ...
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Can't access System Settings or Catalyst!

Recently I did a "clean" install of Ubuntu 14.10 and I had everything running fine, using my AMD Radeon HD 6630M as the default graphics card, without issue (I have one of those stupid dual-graphics ...
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Need help getting switchable graphics working under Ubuntu 14.10

According to "Details" (System Settings-->Details), my Sony VAIO VPC-CB15F is using only my integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 graphics card (it says the graphics are "Intel Sandybridge Mobile"), ...
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Can't log into Ubuntu. How to remove the ATI Catalyst driver?

Installing the Catalyst drivers on Ubuntu 14.10 HP Zbook 14 broke the system - it can't start the X display because it crashes now, and I can't switch to tty or command-line to remove the driver as ...
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GUI crashes after installing AMD Catalyst 14.9 on Ubunut 14.10

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 using kernel 3.16.0-24-generic and X.Org X Server Version 1.16.0. I tried to install the AMD Catalyst 14.9 driver for my ATI Radeon HD 5570. After it installed ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 and latest supported AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver (fglrx) intermittently hangs system - unreliable stability

My system reliability has been compromised since upgrading to Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 on a AMD64 system with a Radeon R9 290X card and installing the official AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver. It now hangs ...
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AMD/ATI Sun PRO Radeon HD 8570A/8570M cannot install catalyst ubuntu 14.04

I am unable to install catalyst drivers for Radeon HD 8570M graphic card. If I use new drivers from AMD site I will get an error during the installation like cannot detect suported videocard. If I use ...
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Change back to embedded graphics from Terminal [duplicate]

I used the AMD "Catalyst" program (from within Unity) to change to my dedicated graphics card, but now when I try to boot into Ubuntu, I get an error that the graphics driver has failed! Following ...
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Trying to run Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 with old ATI cards

First, I've tried Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04, Xubuntu 11.04, Xubuntu 12.04. Video card is ATI Radeon 9600/9550/X1050 Series. I've done some digging before I decided to ask question here,...
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Black borders after installing Calalyst 14.4

Have just done a hardware upgrade with existing Ubuntu 14.04, including an AMD APU A10-7700K. But I found that the 3 offerings in Additional Drivers didn't work properly so I couldn't start the ...
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Catalyst Control Center

I have this installed, but then what? Is this an application that you can open up and modify or is it like a driver that you just download and not touch again?
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Chrome graphical glitches with AMD Catalyst proprietary driver [closed]

Same exact issue as Chrome display glitch when the GPU acceleration is on, AMD Catalyst driver. Graphical glitching happens periodically, maybe triggered by flash/javascript-heavy pages? I'm pretty ...
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Chrome display glitch when the GPU acceleration is on, AMD Catalyst driver [closed]

I have some graphics glitch when enable GPU acceleration in chrome. If I disable acceleration, it fix the glitch ; But in full HD most of flash videos frame rate drop, so very slow. :) Any idea, what ...
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How to use only intel graphics and power off radeon with proprietary Catalyst drivers?

I've been using Linux for quite a while in everyday computing and programming. But now i got this new laptop with amazing battery life on windows which runs pretty cool even while gaming. But for ...
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Fullscreen tearing in Firefox Flash video with AMD Catalyst drivers

Since upgrading to Linux Mint 17, every time I put a flash video into fullscreen it starts tearing up, then freezes after a couple seconds. This only happens when I have the proprietary AMD drivers ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 just update and very slow

So I just updated from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04, and I noticed that my system (specifically animations and videos) are very slow. I disabled the animations, which helped. But its still working very slow, ...
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To which catalyst version correspond the fglrx-update drivers of 14.04

I cant get my head with the version number of catalyst and fglrx. I had 12.04 with 13.1 catalyst and upgraded to 14.04 and selected from the Additional Drivers Tab the fglrx update driver. To which ...
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Uninstaller for amd catalyst /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh, does not exist or cannot be found

I am unable to uninstall the AMD Catalyst driver using the script specified by the AMD instructions here. When I run the command: sudo ./amd-driver-installer-13.35.1005-x86.x86_64.run --uninstall ...
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AMD Catalyst installation [duplicate]

I did a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 but I can't install Catalyst. When I try to install the driver it displays an error that there is no compatible adapter. I tried it with the stable and the beta ...
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Installing AMD Catalyst 14.3 on Ubuntu 13.10-64bit

I have followed these instructions: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Saucy_Installation_Guide#Generate_a_new_.2Fetc.2FX11.2Fxorg.conf_file I have not performed section 3.5 Generate a new /etc/...
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Old AMD Linux Drivers Cannot Be Downloaded From AMD [closed]

If you guys are in my boat, you may also be looking for older catalyst drivers for your card. The problem here is that while AMD does list SOME of the older drivers, half of them are not downloadable. ...
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How to install the proprietary AMD graphic driver(fglrx) correctly via the AMD website? [duplicate]

This question currently aims to describe how to install the proprietary drivers for AMD graphic cards from the AMD website. Refer to this question for other ways to install it. Please don't get misled ...
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Monitor displays "signal out of limits" message after installing catalyst/fglrx

I installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 into my desktop PC (ATI Radeon HD 5570 Graphics Card, Monitor full HD LG W2240). I tried to install ATI catalyst driver suggested by Ubuntu system itself. When I tried to ...
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aticonfig still shows old config after replacing video card [duplicate]

I had a system with AMD 7950 video card installed, than I upgraded the video card to R9 280X and reinstalled the driver to the latest version AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver I did this for reinstall ...
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Radeon r7 reported as hd 8600 "oland" on Ubuntu 12.04 with AMD proprietory driver

Can anyone tell me why loaded latest fglrx Ati/AMD prorietory driver is identified as "oland" with Radeon HD 6800 VGA card (command: fglrxinfo); and also CCC identifies (catalyst 13.12 stable ...
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How to change AMD Catalyst Control Center's Language?

My Lubuntu installation presented a very strange feature this time: when I installed AMD proprietary drivers for my GPU I found out that my Catalyst Control Center is in German, even though the rest ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 screen flashing and is not going to login screen after I installed AMD Catalyst driver

So I installed the AMD Catalyst driver, rebooted and then the screen started to shift between black screen and normal screen every ~5 sec. Also it does not go to the normal login screen anymore.
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AMD Catalyst diskless cluster

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 to set up a diskless compute cluster. When I use the procedure detailed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto, I successfully am able to boot all four nodes. ...
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Radeon 7770 breaks when upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10

Sorry if I am a bit verbose but I am trying to recollect and provide as much information. Everything was working fine in 13.04 and I could even play dota2 on steam. Since upgrading to 13.10 it has ...
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I have the black screen after installing ati control center

I am new to Ubuntu , and I tried to install the amd catalyst control center on Ubuntu 13.04 ,but after installing i can't do anything because it only shows me the black screen. What can I do? Please ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 AMD/ATI proprietary driver slow boot time, lengthy login/logout delays

Ubuntu 13.10 is causing me major headaches with my AMD/ATI HD 5770 GPU. Below is a list of problems I am currently encountering. 1) The boot time is extended by at least 25s after installing catalyst ...
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How to install the amd Catalyst drivers in Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I am wondering has anyone had any luck installing the catalyst drivers on 13.10 and I have had some trouble in the past on 13.04 with kernel 3.10, and before I upgrade it would be nice know that ...
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Which version of Catalyst AMD graphics driver will be default in Ubuntu 13.10

Could it be 13.11? It is important becouse older version does not work with my graphics and Unity.
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Catalyst Control Center (Administrative) prompts for password, then won't open?

I have a fresh (non-wubi) Ubuntu 13.04 x64 install, with successfully installed AMD Radeon HD 7870 drivers that were obtained by Software & Updates > Additional Drivers > AMD Graphics accelerators ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 won't boot after new AMD catalyst center [duplicate]

I am far from an experienced linux user. I uninstalled the latest catalyst center and installed the new AMD beta driver. The installation seemed to go fine then it said I should restart to avoid ...
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How to uninstall Catalyst 13.8 beta?

I'm currently running 13.04 with the 3.10 kernel, so I can use my wifi. I foolishly tried to use Catalyst 13.6 beta even though it says it's not compatible with kernel 3.10. Still, I have my laptop ...
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AMD Radeon HD 3000 Series (I installed but where is aticonfig) [duplicate]

I had Dell studio 1536 laptop with windows vista defaults already installed. recently I decided to shift from Microsoft windows to ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu gnome 3. After installation It's look ...
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Janitor broke my visual interface - Xubuntu 12.04

yesterday a performed a couple of updates and after that i have executed Janitor (from within ubuntu-tweak) to cleanup (incl. everything, also old kernels) my system (Xubuntu 12.04.2, running on a ...
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Which drivers should I install?

i'm currently using Catalyst 13.4 on Dell 1749 i3 (GPU: ATI5650) but last time I saw in the window of "Sotware and Updates", that there are new: I checked them out. I used early Catalyst 13.4 and ...
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Why can't I install the fglrx drivers for a RV620 card?

I have done everything correctly from: What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD? And after installation i use command: gilu@gilu-desktop:~/...
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