Questions tagged [fglrx]
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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Can't Use Radeon 8790M on Latitude E6540 with Kubuntu 13.04
Trying to use the Radeon 8790M on my Dell Latitude E6540 running Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring). This laptop also has an Intel adapter (for power saving). lspci gives:
$ lspci | grep VGA
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How do I get Unity panel, dash, and launcher back after kernel upgrade?
I have just upgraded the kernel on my 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 to 3.8.0-22-generic. Now my unity panel, dash and launcher are missing and graphics are running really slowly. Compiz and openGL seem to be ...
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Make fan speed change permanent with aticonfig
I have a Radeon HD 7950 on Ubuntu 12.10, kernel 3.5. I have the fglrx-updates installed. The problem is that my gpu fan, upon startup, ramps up to 100% and stays that way. It's the same way on my ...
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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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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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Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't boot after fresh install
I've installed yesterday Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit version (as recommended) on my laptop. It was a fresh install, alongside Windows XP. On grub, after choosing normal boot on ubuntu, it starts loading ...
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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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Failed to load module fglrx (module does not exist 0) on Backtrack 5 [closed]
I have uninstalled fglrx modules and ati modules in order to re-install them.after the rebooting the i cant come up with GUI....
On startx it displays
Failed to load module fglrx (module does not ...
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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 ...
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FGLRX doesn't show in Additional Drivers
I have Dell Studio 15 with ATI mobility HD 4500 Series graphics card.
In Ubuntu 10.10 I used the FLGRX driver which I installed from the Additional Drivers program, I need this because the open ...
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Eyefinity across 3 displays with a AMD Radeon 6800
So I purchased a computer recently and have been trying to customise the display.
AMD Radeon HD 6800 series Ubuntu 10.10. I have three 22inch 1080p LCD monitors that are mounted together. Everything ...
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Doesn't boot after installing fglrx for ati 5650
I'm a complete noob here, I recently bought an HP 3161 with an ATI 5650 hd card, when I installed 10.04 LTS everything was working fine until I was prompted to activate proprietary driver fglrx, after ...
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System freezing... No way of capturing the reason why?
I have a PC that has a number of peripherals connected to it that is intermittently experiencing a freeze of the OS. There are 6+ USB devices and four monitors connected to the PC.
Details of system:...
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AMD Catalyst Installation on Ubuntu; No supported adapters detected
I'm trying to install AMD Catalyst on my Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04) OS.
My notebook has switchable graphics, Intel HD 3000 and Radeon HD 7550M.
Following lots of instructions here and other blogs, ...
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Can't install fglrx-core - help [duplicate]
So after googling around and finding out wine doesn't work with the AMD drivers, I uninstalled it and the libopen dependencies for both AMD64 and i386 as they were conflicting with the installation of ...
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No touchpad and keyboard on Toshiba Sattelite at start
I have a big problem because I can't log in to Ubuntu on my computer, because when I see the login screen, nothing works.
Originally, I solved the problem using this soplution (I pressed NumLock when ...
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Is it possible to use both fglrx and Intel graphic drivers simultaneously?
I have just installed Ubuntu and I'm using the following setup:
AMD R9 270 (2 monitors)
Intel HD 2500 (1 monitor)
With the default configuration after installing Ubuntu (radeon driver for the R9 270)...
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Is there a way to use VDPAU with the proprietary (fglrx) AMD drivers?
I've got a relatively low-powered HTPC running Ubuntu 13.10, sporting a Radeon 6450 for graphics acceleration. I'm using the 14.6 beta of the proprietary (Catalyst/fglrx) This machine is presently ...
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Portable Ubuntu, how to auto install the correct ATI/Nvidia driver when booting?
That is. I don't want to have both drivers installed at the same time. I just want to make an init script or whatever which will choose the correct driver for the video card currently installed during ...
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Kubuntu 14.04 hangs at startup after installing fglrx
After installing the new AMD Catalyst beta driver (14.6), my system hangs at the boot screen, however I am able to access the TTY terminals.
I installed fglrx as follows:
Downloaded the drivers from ...
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Black screen before login
I'm having some trouble with my xubuntu. It was running just fine yesterday but it's not working today. I remember that I've flipped the power switch during the last shutdown (because it was taking ...
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menue bar and launcher
I recently installed Xorg 1.11 and fglrx 12.6 on my machine and after restarting system that worked as well .
that was good also at the game time .
the unity menuebar/launcher and panel left after i ...
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Last couple of fglrx drivers on Ubuntu 12.04 have backlight support broken
I've been keeping up with latest fglrx releases on AMD's website and it appears that both the last stable (13.4) and beta (13.6) drivers have brightness broken in Ubuntu 12.04 with all the latest ...
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Ubuntu desktop 12.10 64-bit, icons don't show
Recently I had problems with fglrx cause I have an ATI card, if I install the privative drivers from the Ubuntu repo, I get no Unity launch bar cause the drivers are not compatible with the new Xorg.
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Double entries in the gnome 3 task bar [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3. All was working well except that graphics were slow and even moving a window on the screen seemed slow.
I installed the fglrx ati driver. Which seems to have ...
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Problem with ATI Radeon HD 7670M on Ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers on 12.10
I updated from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 a couple of days back.
My machine is a Dell Inspiron 15R with a Radeon ...
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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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How to reset display settings in XFCE \ Ubuntu 12.04 and also flgrx drivers
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and since I hate unity I installed the Xubuntu package and am using XFCE instead.
Since I have a Radeon HD5770 I also installed the fglrx drivers.
This all went ...
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ATI (fglrx) Dual monitor / laptop hot-plugging [closed]
I been running Ubuntu 12.04 since alpha with the ATI open source drivers and with Gnome-Shell. I been generally very happy with them with only small issues along the way. Now of course it does not ...
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Section of the screen gets distorted and pixelated after a few hours [closed]
I have a Dell 1464 and installed Ubuntu on an External drive. After using ubuntu, I realized that a section of 3 or more hours make my screen go pixelated (Actually the blend of colors seems to get ...
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Unable to update display driver in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I am trying to update my driver and see this screen. It doesn't allow me to update the driver. Note the greyed out options. How can I fix this?
EDIT: Revert to open source graphics drivers - options ...
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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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Do I Need Linux Drivers For Virtual Box?
I have recently fallen in love with Linux. I first decided to try out Ubuntu 13.10 a few weeks ago, but I bricked it by incorrectly installing an AMD FGLRX driver. Then I reformatted and wiped that ...
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Shouldn't there be a specific Wayland ATI driver?
I use a 1Gb ATI HD Radeon Graphic card on a Dell Laptop
I'm still a newbee at this; But from my understanding, the latest Ubuntu does not use X.org anymore, but uses Wayland. And the fglrx (both the ...
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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 run ...
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How to install the open-source "radeon" driver
I "Accidentally" upgraded to 16.04 from 15.10 as it would have lost support anyway in July, and now FGLRX is nowhere to be found and only one of my monitors work.
Currently screenfetch is displaying ...
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Is there any Ubuntu 16.04 derivative which support by default proprietary AMD graphics driver?
Generally speaking, I like an idea of using Open Source drivers, not only for AMD graphics.
However, I'm unable to run application which requires OpenGl 4. fglrx is deprecated for Ubuntu 16.04, so I ...
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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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Error while installing Catalyst 13.12 on Ubuntu 13.10 32 bit
I have downloaded Catalyst drivers from amd site, unpacked it and created a package with
$ sudo ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/saucy
Created directory fglrx-install....
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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 8....
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Freezes Randomly
I've been having slowdowns/freezes in Ubuntu only after upgrading to 12.04 LTS. I'm using an AMD Athlon II X2, 3GB Ram and an ATI Radeon HD5670.
My PC freezes randomly and I suspect that it's really ...
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Ubuntu and AMD's GCN 1.0 GPUs with AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 drivers
I am on a debian based distribution with catalyst drivers.They work nicely but drivers crash sometimes. Also they have old software in repository. That's why I wanted to come back to Ubuntu. I left ...
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Problem getting oibaf installed correctly
I'm trying to install Oibafs PPA for Mesa on my wifes computer. We are both running 15.10 and on my computer it worked without any issue but on hers it seems like it's gotten stuck on software ...
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Running a script at startup that uses xrandr to set display options
I've tried numerous methods of getting the following commands to run at startup
xrandr --output DFP10 --rotate left
xrandr --output DFP11 --right-of DFP10
This is necessary because my left monitor ...
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FGLRX disturbs TTYs and Plymouth graphics
I just installed Ubuntu Trusty on my new SSD, enabling UEFI, which was disabled previously. After the installation finished (and I finally found a workaround for a strange HP UEFI, which denied ...
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Basic question on setting higher screen resolution
I have two Intel Core2 Duo desktop PCs both connected to an iiyama Prolite E2407HDS monitor through a VGA switch box. I've just reformatted the hard drive and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on one.
In ...
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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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Why isn't Ubuntu using the open-source AMD/ATI drivers?
I've recently installed Ubuntu-x open source drivers for my ATI card on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I did it with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
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ATI radeon mobility 3650 overheats and shuts down computer in Xubuntu and not Windows. Why?
I have recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows Vista on my Acer Aspire 6920G laptop. I installed the latest proprietary fglrx drivers for the ATI radeon mobility 3650.
In Xubuntu I felt ...
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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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