FGLRX (FireGL and Radeon for X) is the proprietary AMD display driver. Use this tag if you have trouble using or installing the FGLRX driver.
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Installing “AMD Catalyst™”
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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Lost transparency in KDE after installing fglrx video driver
The transparency of KDE panel , Kickoff menu & tooltips were gone just after installing the fglrx display driver
Folder view plasmoid remains transparent (Looks like before).
Kwin animations ...
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How might I install fglrx 9.0.2 on Ubuntu 13.04?
The fglrx-updates package in 13.04 contains fglrx 9.1.11. For some reason, this driver is not nearly as good for certain OpenCL work as the 9.0.2 driver found in fglrx-updates for Ubuntu 12.04 and ...
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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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Laptop fan speed abnormally high after installing 13.04, Unity doesn't load after installing and removing fglrx
I have a Toshiba Satellite P300-1FO laptop, and I recently deleted my 12.10 and freshly installed 13.04.
The fan speed becomes abnormally high after a short time operating the computer. The CPU ...
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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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Multiple monitor setup - randomly one monitor is detected as removed and added again
I have a 3 monitor setup, all 3 same viewsonic model, new (less than a year).
Randomly, monitor 1 will be detected as removed and added again (from syslog):
May 6 21:47:33 athena colord: device ...
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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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Radeon HD6450 doesn't work under ubuntu 12.04 server
Hardware: HP proliant microserver N40L
OS: Ubuntu server 12.04 (lsb_release gives Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, to be precise)
Graphics card: XFX radeon HD 6450 ...
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Gdm3 doesn't start after installing ATI d
I have just installed some graphics drivers on my Debian 6. I used sgfxi script which generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and installed ATI drivers. After installation which was succeeded I couldn't ...
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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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Ubuntu raring 13.04 x64 AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M fglrx issue
I finished install my fresh Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and would like install fglrx (ATI driver).
But, I tried install the new AMD proprietary 13.4 and got a low graphics mode after reboot.
When I install both ...
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Background not showing/blank [13.04] [closed]
I have recently upgraded to 13.04 (beta) and my background only shows white. I've even tried installing a background manager, but the results are the same. So I assume this is a Unity (or compiz) ...
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xorg-edgers PPA doesn't seem to include fglrx-installer package
I'm trying to use the xorg-edgers PPA to install the latest ATI drivers on my laptop:
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
According to that link there is a package named fglrx-installer ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS boots to command line of some kind
I recently built a computer, then installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Desktop, AMD64)using the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux.com.
When it was first installed, the Unity bar (at the left) was ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome 3 Login Screen Bad position
Operating System and Config:
I have Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity removed and installed Gnome 3 desktop.
Everything works fine but...
When I turn on PC for the first time and Gnome loads the login ...
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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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“system running in low graphics mode” - Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
When I boot my Ubuntu 12.04, I get a screen showing:
system running in low graphics mode
After referring some forums and blogs, I tried the following:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ...
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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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How to set display resolution via terminal?
I am on a multi monitor 12.04.2 with ATI 13.1. After the pain of configuring multi monitor, I have the following problem. For some reason whenever I restart the system my third monitor (ID: Display ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04 x86 not recognizing multiple video cards w/ Catalyst driver (Radeon HD 7950 x4)
I have tried getting my 4 video cards operational using catalyst drivers, and have thusfar been unsuccessful. The seemingly most effective method has been using the built in "additional drivers" ...
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Google Chrome “Flickering”
I am having a problem with Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10 64.
On about 20-30% of web sites the page comes up and starts "flickering". It seems like there is a different or partial rendering of the ...
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Thoshiba L655 Overheating on Ubuntu 12.04
I have a Thoshiba L655 laptop with intel core i5,radeon hd5650,3gb ram.The laptop is overheating while running ubuntu 12.04.I found that it may be due to the graphics driver and installed the ...
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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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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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Ubuntu 12.04 - Multimonitor - Office Use - Update AMD drivers?
I am on a triple monitor 12.04.2 64-bit (and will stay till the next LTS). I have an ATI 5850 with the AMD catalyst drivers installed (fglrx), version 12.10. I do not play games. The only thing I ...
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Can't get fglrx to work
I tried switching to fglrx from the Additional Drivers tab in Software Sources. Though when I restarted my system, all that displayed was my wallpaper and the courser. I managed to switch back to the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics not working [duplicate]
With 12.10 I was able to use the solution provided in Ubuntu 12.10 AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics not working
How to make it work in 13.04 Raring Ringtail?
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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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How to reduce high GPU temperature in ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04
I've been having this problem since maybe 4, 5 months ago. I've search in the forums and tried every given solution. Please help.
I have an ASUS G73JH with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 Graphic Card. ...
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What driver should I install to use Unity with a Radeon HD 7750?
Ubuntu 12.10
I followed some tutorial (which I can not find again) on how to install AMD catalyst. It involved updating the kernel or something. This works as I am now no longer using software ...
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ATI Raedon 68e1 Binary drivers not working in Ubuntu 10.04
I was using the amdcccle to set the graphical settings provided by the ATI graphics card, both fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle was installed by default. Then I followed the ubuntu community i.e
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Will ubuntu get better at supporting notebooks with switchable graphics?
I own a Dell Vostro 3560 with a AMD Radeon 7670M. With my limited knowledge, I couldn't manage to get Ubuntu running on it (I asked for help here back then).
Reluctantly, I made the switch to windows. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: AMD A8-5500 (with Radeon HD 7560D) and console mode problem
I'm experiencing problems using AMD Trinity Hardware in Ubuntu 12.04 during boot.
I installed 'fglrx' driver and rebooted. System hung. I purged driver.
I installed 'fglrx-experimental' and ...
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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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fglrx drivers can not be installed?
I have troubles with installing ANY non-free driver for my graphic card!
When I tryied to install drivers via Software Sources nothing happens.
Then I open terminal and tryied to do it manually. ...
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Error Creating .deb File of AMD Catalyst Driver
I was following the steps to install AMD Catalyst Driver from wiki.cchtml.com.
While I was creating the .deb file the following error occured--
$ sudo sh ...
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fglrx not loaded after automated login
After the installation of the fglrx-driver (without problems, newest from source), the following things happen after an automated login:
the gnome-shell loads with a blinking curser
all following ...
