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Troubleshooting poor performance with ATI HD 5800 GPU

I am attempting again to solve problems between ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (5830) GPU and Ubuntu. Three months ago I posted: Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800 I ...
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY

I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
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video/display is dark on HDMI out

I plugged HDMI cable in to Samsung tv to watch the video. I can see the video and hear the sound, however the video is very dark. Too dark to watch. I've tried using the default video player and VLC ...
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Why does ATI Radeon have choppy display on Linux? [duplicate]

I'm using Radeon HD 7700M on Ubuntu 12.10 and I'm using Catalyst 13.1 as the graphics driver. The problem is that I keep getting these horizontal lines appearing on the screen that look like the ...
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Random white pixels on screen

I have an Ubuntu 12.04 installed with a ATI Radeon HD 6550D. The problem is, that sometimes, there are random white pixels at the screen, which appears especially on dark areas of the screen. This is ...
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Dual Monitors constant changing of resolutions

I've been having a strange issue with Ubuntu 12.10 and dual monitors. When I boot up for the first 30 minutes of use the display settings change, for example sometimes my laptop monitor will change to ...
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Display won't work

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 with windows installer and everything works perfectly except the display. I must hook it up to external display, and the display works fine on Windows 7. Its an Intel ...
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Display corruption with fglrx drivers

I've been having some problems with the AMD 12.10 and 13.1 drivers. Basically there always appear to be flashing lines going across my screen. It happen all the time and every key input makes it ...
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Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800

I have the ubiquitous and difficult display problems. I have a very limited understanding of everything regarding graphic display mechanics, and Gnome specific terms, so please let me know if you ...
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I have error message connecting a monitor to my netbook

I want to connect my Lenovo S205 Netbook with a 1080p monitor, however the only way to get it to work is by Mirroring the Display. I would like to use the top display at 1080p. My attempts ended ...
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Screen randomly becomes black with cursor in Ubuntu 12.10

Sometimes when I am using Ubuntu 12.10 the screen will randomly become black with a cursor. The cursor represents whatever is below, such as a blinking text cursor if I am hovering over gedit, or a ...
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ATI 9550 shows up as laptop in displays after update to 12.04, how do I fix this?

My guess is this is on here somewhere but I have searched and even tried looking at bunch of other similar video problems. My ATI 9550 shows up as laptop in displays after update to Ubuntu 12.04, ...
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Display problem when adjusting brightness in ubuntu 12.04

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell 1554 laptop. I was adjusting my screen brightness when this happened : this has become a recurring problem which is really annoying. I also want to ...
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Best triple head display setup

I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a darn good triple head display setup. I've got a VisionTek 900530 Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 PCI Express video card that has two DVI outputs and one Mini ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Resolution stuck at 1024x768 using Open Source Radeon Driver

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with an ATI Radeon HD5670 card. I currently have the open source xorg-edgers driver. I've been using this driver interchangeably with the Radeon open source driver since fglrx ...
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AMD dual graphics laptop movie playback

Recently I bought an AMD APU based laptop (A6 3420M + Radeon 7670M), installed the proprietary driver (AMD Catalyst) and everything works fine except for movie playback in the fullscreen -- it seems ...
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Can't install graphic drivers in 12.04

The driver is ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver. After clicking Activate, it asks for my password and starts downloading. Then it shows an error message: 2012-10-03 16:16:04,227 DEBUG: ...
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Cannot use a second monitor

When I plug in my second display and activate it in "Displays" I get an "Out of range" error. It says the max desktop size is 1600 by 1600. Does anyone know a fix? I have an AMD/ATI Mobility chipset, ...
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System changing display configuration on its own account - from dual monitor to mirror

My machine is a 13" notebook connected to a 22" external monitor. Using AMD CC I set it up so that the notebook screen is my primary monitor and the 22" my secondary. If I am planning to watch a ...
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Ubuntu crashes at boot screen, saying 'No display device is active' [closed]

When I try to boot Ubuntu 12.04 it will crash and I have to restart my PC. I'm dual booting Windows 7, right now when I try to boot it gets to the purple screen but nothing shows up. It will stay on ...
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HDMI out broken after upgrade

I've already created a bug for this in LaunchPad but if possible would like to find out what package I can undo the upgrade on to get my workstation back to full functionality. After an upgrade on ...
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Cant log in as user after upgrade

Everything worked fine in 11.10. Upgraded today, got the low system resource error for my graphics card. Completely uninstalled fglrx and reinstalled it. Will now boot to login screen but wont let ...
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How do I force the native screen resolution of my display if it's not offered using fglrx driver?

My computer model is Dell Studio 1555: Pentium Dual Core T4300(2.1GHz,800MHz,1MB), 4096MB 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel, 512 MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4570 using the ATI proprietary driver. My screen ...
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3 Displays Ubuntu, ATI Radeon

There are lots of questions on this but I've read them all and none helped me! ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series PCI Express 2.0 My co-worker attempted to use 3 displays on windows, that failed... ...
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ASUS Eee PC 1215B: Washed Out Display with AMD Catalyst drivers

I have been having this problem for a while, however lately I have been trying to find ways to make my netbook perform better, visually and functionally. When I use default Radeon graphic drivers, my ...
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How do I improve performance on an ATI Radeon 9550?

I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu (32-bit) and I didn't find a solution to make my video card work fine. I mean that my graphic card has poor performance on watching videos. I've tried a lot of ...
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Black screen at the booting part of ubuntu [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? I installed 64 bit ubuntu on my laptop but everytime I try to boot into ubuntu, i just get a ...
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Can't enable 3rd monitor after installing ATI proprietary drivers

So, after hearing how Ubuntu 11.10 was supposed to have improved support for multiple monitors, I had to re-install again and give it a try. I always found Ubuntu gets more done faster related to ...
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Outputting to External Display Only: ATI Radeon HD6310 Driver Issues on a Thinkpad x120e [closed]

The open driver applied in Ubuntu 11.10 by default for ATI's Radeon HD 6310 works fairly well. It detects my secondary display, the resolutions for both it and built in display [Thinkpad x120e], and ...
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Massive graphical corruption when playing videos

After upgrade my Ubuntu to 11.04 I have a weird problem playing videos. See the capture from my display. I'm getting the same thing with all of the players and video file types. Ubuntu 11.04 64bit ...
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Display pixilates when external monitor is attached [closed]

Just upgraded to 11.04 and loving it. However, when I boot the acer aspire 5100 laptop with external VGA monitor plugged in, or when I attach it after boot, both screens pixilate and I can't see a ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 not normal boot screen [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Boot screen in low graphics/text mode Hi everyone, I have installed the latest ATI Drivers from AMD's website and everything's working fine. It's just that with these ...
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Unable to change display settings

I have 2 displays and used to have 1 big desktop. Now after the last upgrade, my custom settings are not used anymore and I cannot change them using the gnome-display-properties. The mirror ...
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How can I solve display glitches and poor performance with ATI fglrx driver on my ThinkPad X100e?

I noticed that video performance on my Thinkpad X100e was very poor compared to Windows 7, so I installed the ATI fglrx proprietary drivers by using the "Additional Drivers" dialogue box. The system ...
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Upgrade to Maverick broke the display [closed]

After upgrading my Dell Studio laptop with ATI graphics from 10.04 to 10.10 I get a low res boot logo (10.10 with four full stops under it) followed by a blank purple screen. I can log in "blind" and ...