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How to install Gallium3D in Opensuse 12.3? [closed]
I installed opensuse 12.3 GNOME x64 (but also like to know the solution to my problem for KDE) on my laptop which has the graphics card "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI M96 [Mobility Radeon HD ...
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Installing “AMD Catalyst™” [duplicate]
I have recently started using Ubuntu, and I do not know how to install my drivers. I have watched a few tutorials on Ubuntu and also read a few, however, non of them seems to work on my machine.
I ...
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Hardware Acceleration on HD 7950 Ubuntu 13.04
I have installed a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04, and have attempted several methods of installing the fglrx drivers for the Gigabyte HD 7950 3GB graphics card with no success. Every time the driver ...
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Installation of : AMD Radeon™ HD7790 Catalyst™ Performance Driver under Ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
Has anyone had success in installation of the drivers mentioned in the title ?
(I was unsuccessful and finally installed AMD Radeon HD77xx driver which works OK).
Thanks for your response.
P.S. I ...
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Does installing fglrx driver changes xorg.conf (custom resolutions)?
I use an LCD with 1920x1080 resolution and VGA connection. When I first installed Ubuntu it showed only up to 1360x768 in display settings. I added 1920x1080 resolution by using gft/cvt commands and ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 and Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250, analog output
I have a HP G62 notebook. Video card is:
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
I have a bigger monitor ...
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ATI Driver breaks Unity, Fglrx or Fglrx-updates
Ubuntu starts and runs with the open source driver, but once I go into Additional Drivers and activate the Fglrx or Fglrx-updates proprietary drivers and restart, after I login nothing in Ubuntu shows ...
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ATI 4850 on 13.04 64bit
To those that can help,I am guessing that you have seen a variant of this problem many times before. However after doing my best to try to use the various fixes mentioned across various pages, I have ...
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Graphics Driver - Low Grapich Error [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 (latest version)
now I try to install graphics driver.
I have followed this instruction How to Install AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
I tried 4 times ...
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Is there a way to use the FGLRX driver in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04? [duplicate]
I have an ATI Radeon X1600 256 MB DDR3 (I think that is rv550 and it uses Gallium R300 driver). However, Unity is slow and that has always been the case since its introduction. I'm wandering is there ...
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Installing new ATI drivers, running into issues
I'm trying to install "amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64" for my HD 7850, but I'm having issues getting my old driver uninstalled (which I got from "fglrx-updates" under software ...
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Installing fglrx 13.3 with powerxpress on Ubuntu 13.04
When trying to install fgrlx 13.3 from the AMD website, the installation goes smoothly, but when I to aticonfig --initial -f, I get the following error:
Uninitialised file found, configuring.
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Monitor flickering ATI
I'm using ubuntu 12.10 on laptop samsung with randeon hd 6620g (APU A8), when I run amdcccle -version it says 2.18, not sure if that's the correct version.
My problem is that I have and external ...
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What is the VESA:WRESTLER driver and why am I using it?
I just installed the proprietary fglrx-updates driver:
However, when I check the Graphics, it's shown to be VESA:WRESTLER:
What is this VESA:WRESTLER driver and why am I using it? Is it just ...
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Issues with Unity after installing and uninstalling FGLRX again
I tried to install FGLRX drivers on Ubuntu 13.04, but that didn't work out.
I then went back to the open source drivers (via update-manager) but I couldn't boot into a graphical OS.
I got a black ...
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fglrx vs fglrx-updates and Ubuntu (Quantal) vs AMD's driver?
When trying to decide which proprietary driver I want, I was always a bit confused as to whether to choose fglrx or fglrx-updates. Both appear to contain the proprietary driver, but I don't know ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.02 x64 - from kernel 3.2 to 3.5? Does fglrx 13.1 drivers work?
I have ubuntu 64 bit 12.04.02 and I want to upgrade to kernel 3.5 from 3.2. But I have fglrx ati drivers installed (from amd site) v13.1.
How do I have to proceed to upgrade? I had problems in past ...
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Upgrade and custom fglrx drivers
I am on 12.04.2 with manually installed fglrx 12.10 drivers. I want to upgrade to 12.10 and then to 13.04. What will happen to my manually installed video drivers? Will they get replaced? I also have ...
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kubuntu x64 - can I install kernel 3.4 with fglrx 13.1 ati drivers already installed?
As my title I'd like to know if I can upgrade from 3.2 kernel to 3.4 without removing fglrx driver 13.1 (they are compatible with kernel up to 3.5).
I ask that because I tried doing this:
removed ...
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Problem installing fglrx drivers 13.1 with kernel 3.4 on ubuntu 12.04.02 x64
I have tried to upgrade from kernel 3.2 to kernel 3.4 (here) and after that installing fglrx drivers 13.1 (compatible up to kernel 3.5). Here are the steps I followed:
Removing (purging) existing ...
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1answer
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Set default GPU for switchable ATI/Intel graphics
I am running Quantal using the Catalyst 13.3 ATI driver for Intel HD 4000/ATI HD 7670M setup. I can switch between integrated and dedicated GPU with amdconfig --px-igpu or amdconfig --px-dgpu. Upon ...
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fglrx vs open drivers - informations and temperature control
I have ubuntu 12.04.2 and kde. I have fglrx 13.1 latest drivers. Sometimes I have freezes at starup, it's very annoying, and I discovered it's bug : http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691
So maybe ...
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using fglrx after using vesa driver issues
I've been using Vesa driver for old Radeon X1950. After I removed the card (using integrated HD 400 now), installed fglrx and applied correct xorg.conf X is up and running and I can see "log in" ...
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Was able to use proprietary ATI driver before, now on clean install I don't have that option
I am running 12.04LTS, and I just formatted. Prior to the format, I was using the ATI proprietary driver through "additional drivers". I have two ATI radeons that are crossfired. Now, when I do go ...
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Radeon HD4850 13.1 Legacy Drivers installation problems
I'm having a bit of a problem with my graphics drivers. My card is a Radeon HD 4850.
It all started when I tried to upgrade to the 13.1 Legacy Driver a few days ago. I was unable to generate a ...
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Framerate drops 30 seconds after boot
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit. It has an ATI Radeon HD 6770M graphics card.
If I run glxgears as soon as I log in, I get a framerate of around 3900. But then, after about 30 seconds or ...
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12.10, ATI drivers help?
I just downloaded Ubuntu today and I love it! I'm trying to install the ATI drivers by the guide posted here, but I get an error after I choose to generate the drivers for the distro, and I get the ...
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update-alternatives error installing fglrx on 12.10 with PowerXpress card (
When I try to install FGLRX from the andrikos ppa, I get the following error:
joey@joey-vaio-linux:~$ sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Uninitialised file found, configuring.
PowerXpress info: Diagnostic ...
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Can't get b43 and fglrx to work together [closed]
Never seen anything like this before, and I had it working until I went a did the dumbass thing of repairing my drive under OS X and losing my grub partition. I can get my wireless card working just ...
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How do I install proprietary AMD drivers for a Radeon HD 6870M / Integrated Intel hybrid graphics? [duplicate]
Might already have been answered, but every single tries did not work, so I'm asking this here. So yeah, I can't manage to install the AMD proprietary drivers (neither can I for open-source ones), ...
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I have problems with playing videos of any kind [duplicate]
I am going to take a wild guess here and blame catalyst drivers for that. Unfortunately, OSS drivers are not really an option since I have a new model of the AMD graphic card.
The problem is present ...
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Changed drivers to fix launcher now AMD unsupportd hardware
The other day when logging on to 12.10 I saw my launcher had disappeared, as had the top menu. All I could use was the terminal.
Following advice from Ubuntu 12.10 shows no launcher or menu I did:
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Why is fglrx's package version higher than fglrx-updates?
I'm having problems with the DRI infrastructure and the fglrx drivers. When searching for a solution I have noticed that in Synaptic the fglrx package is at version 9.002 and fglrx-updates is at ...
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Proprietary drivers don't work with AMD Radeon HD 7640G on Ubuntu 12.10
My setup
First off, my apologies if this is a duplicate but I could not find anything specific regarding my graphics card.
So as the title states, I have purchased a new laptop with an AMD Radeon HD ...
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Any way to make switching between discrete and integrated graphics from the BIOS work with proprietary drivers?
What I would like to be able to do:
I would like to be able to switch between my dedicated graphics card (AMD) and integrated chip (Intel) from the BIOS, that means:
Restart → BIOS: set to ...
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1answer
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Graphics Unusable With fglrx
I'm having graphics problems with a 1 day old install of 12.10 on a Sony Vaio VGN-FW139E with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400.
I could not get my HDMI display to be recognized, so I tried installing ...
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1answer
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Cant see the desktop except for the background Ubuntu 12.10
This happened after I reinstalled the fglrx graphic drivers. Is this a problem with Unity or Compiz?
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Triple-display setup using AMD drivers
I am currently running a dual display setup with nVidia 8800GTS video card, on a Ubuntu 12.10 box. The current setup uses nVidia TwinView to render the image on a 1920x1200 display and 1600x1200 one.
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fglrx causes fallback mode, doesn't work
I made a fresh install to Ubuntu 12.10 a while ago and tried to install the fglrx via software-properties-gtk. But when I install and restart one of the new versions, I can't acces unity (only desktop ...
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Install fglrx and nvidia-current simultaneously?
In Ubuntu precise, I was able to install both fglrx and nvidia-current in parallel (AMD card was for video, the nVIdia one for OpenCL). Since 12.10 this seems to be no longer possible (nvidia-current ...
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1answer
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Xorg fail to use my graphic card
Xorg use the Intel GMA but I want to use my ATI Radeon card.
Here from Xorg logs :
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrx
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) ...
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How do I install legacy drivers for an HD4250 on 12.04?
I seen some instructions about workarounds for 12.10, but I don't want to risk breaking my system which is something that already happened when I installed the regular FGLRX drivers.
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Falied installing ATI X.Org binary driver!! (ATI Radeon HD 5400)
The open source driver worked well with the fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04, but it drains my laptop battery faster. So I installed the proprietary driver from jockey-gtk. It gave me this error ...
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Video driver ATI 5470 doesn't load
I am struggling against the black screen in my laptop (Pavilion DV7 4177NR) during four days without good results.
I am following the recommendations of unofficial wiki
about installing fglrx, or, at ...
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fglrx installation without success - gl_conf issue
I followed the steps of this guide. I've installed the drivers without any problems with sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb.
The next step is Generate a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but I can't do this due to ...
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Updating FGLRX driver fails & deactivates FGLRX driver
I have an ATI/AMD graphics card in my computer. However, every time I try to install the post-release updates, it always fails and deactivates the graphics driver.
I've pasted the last few messages ...
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ATI HD Missing Driver On Official Site
Can someone give me a hand with a HD 4650 SAPPHIRE driver?
I searched on the official site and this is what I get:
AMD Catalyst™ Driver for AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series
AMD has ...
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Error Installing FGLRX driver
My computer uses a Radeon HD 6950. I installed the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" just fine, however, when I tried to install the "post-release updates", I received an error ("Sorry, ...
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Are there better FGLRX drivers?
I have a Radeon HD 4770, the problem is that when I install the FGLRX drivers my computer becomes laggy as hell. Without them installed I can watch HD video(better than in windows with its official ...
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Graphics drivers for ATI Radeon 5450
I've been googling everywhere I could think of for the past three days now and I finally just made an account here to ask my question. I'm a total Ubuntu n00b, I'm converting from Windows (which I ...
