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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu 12.10 + AMD HD6300 [duplicate]

I just updated my computer to ubuntu 12.10, unhappily after reboot it stopped into a black screen, after removing the fglrx drivers it came back to live but it's running super hot, 80º when idle, even ...
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Radeon Driver install help on Ubuntu

I have a AMD/ATI Radeon 7800 series VGA card. I looked up ow to install the drivers under Ubuntu but could not work out how to do it. I want to install the proprietary Fglrx driver. The guide I ...
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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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Radeon 13.1 legacy driver and xserver 1.13

Is the latest radeon legacy driver compatible with xserver 1.13? I have HD4xxx and HD5xxx video cards on my laptop. I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 but not sure if everything will be ok with legacy ...
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Fglrx AMD Catalyst 12.6 doesn't compile in Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit or 32 bit)

Ubuntu won't compile the AMD Catalyst driver package 12.6 from the AMD website. After package creation and during installation I see in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.970/build/make.log there is an error ...
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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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Splice gives blank screen on startup

I just installed splice from the humble bundle, and I get a blank screen on startup. I can hear the audio, and if I move my mouse around, I can hear the menu items or something changing. I have an ...
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HDMI not detected Ubuntu 12.10 - ATI Radeon HD 6670

Brand new to Linux, so help a young blood out :-) (I'm a novice/hobby programmer, but completely new to Linux command syntax, etc) Brand new everything Rig. Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10. Ubuntu ...
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How do I get both AMD Mobility Radeon hd 4250 and 5650's working in a laptop?

My laptop has 2 gpu's inside: Amd mobility radeon hd 4250 Amd mobility radeon hd 5650 After fresh installing ubuntu 12.10, I tried installing official drivers, which broke unity and made it ...
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Screen size and position problem

After installing the fglrx driver everything is ok, but when I install blackbox (yeah I like blackbox it's simple) and I make a custom xsession and log into it, the resolution is ok but the displayed ...
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Trouble with FGLRX in quantal x86_64 [closed]

it's the third time i have to reinstall quantal because the fglrx is making me sick. I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 (the code ir RS880).When i install Ati Driver, i don't have any problems, but ...
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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 set up a 4x3 display with 12 monitors

I have been trying forever to set a video wall using 12 monitors. I can get it all to be one display, but I want to be able to hit the full screen button and have it span across all monitors, not just ...
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Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on 12.10 Quantal: fglrx (legacy) 12.6 unsupported, what to do?

After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is ...
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ATI Radeon HD 3200 very slow performance

I used ATI fglrx driver for 12.04 with ATI Radeon HD 3200. After upgrade to 12.10 - there is no fglrx and the system uses standard opensource ATI driver. The driver is very slow especially on playing ...
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How do I know if I am in fallback mode?

If Gnome 3 appears to be exacltly like Gnome Classic, does that mean that it is running in Fallback Mode? If this is the case, then how do I force it to return to Gnome 3?
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What do the terminologies related to AMD graphics and Ubuntu mean? [closed]

I have an AMD Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, with the latest AMD Catalyst drivers installed.I would like to better understand how things work. What do the terminologies related to AMD graphics cards ...
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Unable to switch to integrated GPU, using fglrx, Catalyst 12.6, Ubuntu 12.04

recently I installed proprietary drivers from ATI, but I am unable to switch to integrated GPU using console sudo amdconfig --px-igpu sudo restart lightdm i am able to log in, but then system ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Cannot remove fglrx

I want to use the open source Radeon driver for Ubuntu, but currently I'm using fglrx. So, I went ahead and purged fglrx using sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* and when I rebooted and ran sudo ...
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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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Radeon Xpress 200M with Hardware Acceleration on Ubuntu 12.04

my notebook is running with the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, which isn't supported by AMD anymore on Linux >2.6.28(fglrx 9.3). I would like to enable hardware acceleration.
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Ubuntu 12.04 - default Radeon driver does not work at all

I've recently upgraded to 12.04 LTS and I have an ATI Radeon HD5670. I've heard that the open source 'Radeon' driver is used by default. However, it wasn't showing anything for me. What I did was I ...
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Fglrx causing 100% CPU with Xorg and freezing system [closed]

My system setup is Ubuntu 12.04 server with ( among other things ) the Ubuntu-Desktop package installed. CPU is an AMD FX-6100 and GPU is a Radeon HD 5770. I believe the issue I am having is with the ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04 does not suspend with proprietary driver for Radeon 6800

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (though these issues have existed in previous releases too) and have a Radeon 6800 graphics card. I've run into issues with the open-source driver (the system would ...
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What can I do about the fglrx driver interfering with jackd?

The jack-audio-connection-kit needs to run in realtime mode and my system is configured accordingly. I'm using the fglxr driver. With Unity-2d everything is fine. With Unity-3d, jack-clients ...
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What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)?

I am planning on doing a fresh install of 12.04 LTS and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over ...
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AMD Radeon HD 5650M

Ok, so I've got the 5650 as a discrete gpu and integrated 4200. The problem is that I cant switch to 5650. fglrxinfo shows that 4200 is on, but aticonfig -px-list shows that Discrete GPU is active. ...
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Slow GUI performance using a Radeon HD5770

I'm fresh Ubuntu user. My PC is pretty fast (Phenom x4 3.6GHz/HD5770/4GB RAM) so i was very disappointed when firstly saw how laggy is the interface - lags when I try to move any window. I think my ...
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PowerXpress error with Driver Catalyst. How can I fix it?

I have install Ubuntu 11.10 64bit on my Hp Dv6-3150el. My Notebook has two graphics cards: lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics ...
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Multimonitor on AMD Catalyst and 11.10 feels slowish

I have an AMD X6 desktop with plenty of RAM and a dual LG monitors driven by a Radeon HD 5830. The monitors are on DVI ports. AMD Catalyst Version 11.11. Tear free is on. Sync to V-black in ccsm, is ...
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I can't enable extra effects in Ubuntu 10.10. Please help? [closed]

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 alongside Ubuntu 11.10 to use an older version of Compiz. On Ubuntu 11.10, Compiz was enabled by default and I didn't need to use any graphics driver to enjoy the effects. All ...
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Mouse disappears on second screen in 11.04 with Radeon hardware [closed]

I'm running a 5 screen setup over (5th screen disabled atm) two Radeon HD cards, three on a 6770 and two on a 5450 (one disabled atm). When I move my mouse onto the second screen on the first card ...
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Split screen and other issues on Ubuntu 11.10 with ATI graphics card

Ever since updating my Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 I experience issues with graphics. The biggest is the "split screen" effect where my desktop is shifted to the right, resulting in having Unity bar in the ...
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Legacy ATI Drivers don't work with a Mobility X300 [closed]

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Dell Latitude D610 Laptop, but obviously hardware accelaration for the integrated ATI Radeon X300 mobility GFX-Chipset does not work. And YES, I did install fglrx ...
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Ubuntu hits a black screen after boot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? I have used wubi.exe to install Ubuntu 11.10 from Windows7. The OS boots properly most of the ...
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Performance problems with FGLRX driver

I have moved from ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 today and I am not impressed. I expected more in this version. There is some improvement but also many bugs. It works very slow for me. Graphic is very very ...
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How to enable open source radeon driver for a Radeon HD 5570?

I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 (using fglrx driver from AMD site) to 11.10. After upgrade 3D acceleration is not working with my Radeon HD 5570 fails to run any program with 3D acceleration. I tried to ...
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HP Pavilion dv6 is not booting with switchable graphics

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 with switchable graphics: an integrated Intel GPU and a discrete ATI GPU (Radeon Mobility HD 6490M (1 GB DDR5)). Any attempt to use the ATI driver (either proprietary or ...
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Why isn't my computer sending input to my monitor?

I have a desktop machine with 11.04. It has ATI/Radeon graphics: john@john:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] I was attempting to ...
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glxgears segmentation fault using open video driver

I have two videocards Integrated(Intel i3) and Discrete(Mobility Radeon HD5470). I noticed this problem, after I installed Catalyst 11.5 from AMD site. But there was something I couldn't manage, ...
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Any hope for Unity using ATI Radeon?

I am currently running Kubuntu 10.04 on a Lenovo T500 laptop with ATI Radeon HD 3650. I want to switch to Gnome with Unity, but encountered the following impossible situation: As reported in this ...