Questions tagged [radeon]
Brand of graphics processing units from AMD, included with other manufacturers' graphics cards. Ask questions about configuring or troubleshooting in Ubuntu.
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Issue enabling/installing hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 6600M on precise (12.04) [duplicate]
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Problem installing libva (VAAPI), vainfo fails
How can I enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD?
I have recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad which comes with an ATI ...
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Any chance for fully working X1600 PCI-E ID 71c3/Unity under Ubuntu 12.04?
How can I get Unity working under an ATI Radeon X1600 PCI-E on Ubuntu 12.04? I'm rather Windows guy, but I can do some things with CLI.
ATI seems to have ended support for this card for both Windows ...
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Brightness keys don't work on a Toshiba Satellite L655
I have a laptop toshiba satallite L655 with ATI Radeon HD 5650.
I have a problem in my super key for the brigthness.
When ever i press FN+f6 or FN+f7 to increase or decrease the light, nothing ...
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Monitor shows "out of range" message
I'm using ubuntu 12.04 and everything was fine until today. I've tried to run a windows game trough wine, the game started but crashed back to the desktop and after that the screen resolution went to ...
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Screen tearing (very noticable during video playback) with HD3000 AND HD Radeon 6630m
I did not have this issue with Ubuntu 11.10. Well, to be clear, I did, but it was easily remedied with compiz workarounds.
I have tried both the propriety and open source ati drivers, and the intel ...
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Screen goes blank/corrupted/garbled when pressed brightness buttons on dell inspiron 14r in 13.04
When i press brightness key little faster the screen turns black(when graphic driver is not installed) or corrupted(when ati driver is used) and i have to forcefully restart again.This happens even ...
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after new install 12.04 black screen with blinking cursor [duplicate]
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I installed 12.04 and I got after boot black screen.Next I started in filesafe mode but filesafeX (all ...
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Newly installed 12.04 on Radeon or NVIDIA type of gfx card?
I use a Nvidia Quadro NVS 290/PCIe/SSE2 at work with dual monitor setup.
Since 11.10 things has gone downwards with performance.
But now with 12.04 performance is even worse, and I can agree that the ...
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ATI Radeon 9250 Driver Problem [duplicate]
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Is my ATI graphics card supported in Ubuntu?
I have a ATI Radeon 9250 video card (250mb) and is a PCI-Express slot. My problem is I don't have the video driver install on my ...
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Screen keeps freezing, then kernel panic
I have a Hp DV6-3079tx.
It has a ATI Radeon graphics chip.
The system seems to randomly freeze up, sometimes it will unfreeze, other times it will un-freeze, freeze, then go black.
Looking in the ...
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Installing Catalyst 11.6 for an ATI HD 6970
Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 is displaying the desktop okay (though limited to 1600x1200) after my having installed my new HD 6970 card, so I'm now trying to install the proprietary driver (I understand the ...
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How do I find out the correct amount of video RAM of a radeon card when using the open source driver?
I was surprised that lspci and the nvidia x server settings application didn't give me the same amount of video memory for my nvidia card. A bit of googling brought me to this site. There it says that ...
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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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cant find a driver for HP AMD Radeon HD 6450 512MB PCIEX16 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I have been trying for quite some time to get a "HP AMD Radeon HD 6450 512MB PCIEX16" GPU to work. I have a HP 6200 Compaq pro SFF, so my gpu options were limited but I picked what I thought was the ...
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Error: Cannot find backlight controller for radeon acpi graphics card
I get the following message every time I reboot Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
drm: radeon_acpi_init Error: Cannot find a backlight controller
What does this mean, and how can I fix it?
Many thanks for your ...
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no sound via HDMI using Xubuntu 13.04 32 bit AMD mesa 9.2
This question has perhaps been asked before but no clear solution seems to exist for me. I have a Radeon 6850 connected to my screen via HDMI. The picture is fine but I get no sound at all, not even ...
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AMD radeon R7 250 Ubuntu 13.10 Open Source Driver
I am using an AMD Radeon R7 250 and I have installed the proprietary drivers from AMD but I would like to try out the Open source driver since I have them on my laptop and that I have good ...
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Additional display is always added on the wrong side
I have a desktop computer with a Radeon R7 360 and FOS-drivers. My main display, which I am using always, is connected to the DVI-port and my TV is connected to the HDMI-out, in case I want to put any ...
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Ati cards need mesa 7.11. Where can i find it
Ati radeon cards Require Natty/11.04 and Modesetting Only
These cards should work with Ubuntu Natty/11.04, however you will need a more recent version of Mesa (7.11.x) than Natty's default (7.10.x) ...
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Should I update to Ubuntu 16.04LTS [closed]
Should I update to the new (2016/8/15 date today) 16.04LTS Ubuntu? I have a PC what has these specs:
-AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
-16 GB RAM
Now, why am I curious?
Because I heard ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 Radeon HD 5770 but basic display functionality does not work
Lets start by saying that i wish I had read this before and I wish that on an upgrade prompt Ubuntu would warn about major compatibility issues such as - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-...
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Should i upgrade to 16.04 from 15.10.. Probably problem with amd graphics
I have AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5730 and use a external monitor
instead original. I always have problem after updates with good working with this solutions. Often i must reinstall system because i have ...
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Radeon Drivers R9 270X Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
Do I need drivers for my graphic card Radeon R9 270X? If yes how can I install them?
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AMD different ways to install drivers
I do not want to know how to install drivers but what the differences between 2 ways and which one is better.
building deb files from *.run file
sudo sh*.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise
installing ...
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Can't get whole picture on the screen of a new monitor
I have a 24inch, VM2453mh-LED, Viewsonic monitor using a Radeon 6570HD video card. Both are new. Viewsonic says the optimum size is 1920x1080. At this size the picture is beautiful, but it overlaps ...
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Unity desktop launcher and bars look garbled with Ati Radeon
I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit on my old P4-Ati Radeon rig. Boots well, gets into desktop, however left bar and top bar are garbled. Main desktop area and windows in that area are mostly fine, ...
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AMD Radeon HD 8790M driver issue with Ubuntu 20.04
I haven't used my built in laptop video card in years and its been fine, but now doing some modelling in FreeCAD and it is painfully slow, so I would really, really like to get my video card working.
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lightdm trying to use non-existent external display
I'm having problems logging in to my X session and/or resuming from a suspend.
Starting about 6 months ago, I started having issues with my desktop manager, lightdm (though I've tried others like gdm3 ...
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amdgpu never sets the lowest P state
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.8 kernel and amdgpu driver for my RX 580.
# lspci | grep VGA
2d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/...
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Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade from 18.04 - amd radeon rx 580 not working
After upgrading to 20.04 from 18.04 and uninstalling amdgpu-pro using their installer, I can no longer get a desktop environment. On boot it goes to a black screen with a cursor and stays there. If ...
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Which driver should I use for my RX 560 for gaming?
I just installed 17.10 on my machine with a X4 950 (A320 chipset) and RX 560. According to the "additional drivers" tab none are in use and the only available option pertains to AMD CPUs, not GPUs. ...
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Suddenly unable to start 16.04, even after reinstall
I'm having a bad day. This morning my 16.04 refused to start. I go through the Grub loader, choose Ubuntu (I have dual boot with Windows 10). I reach the Ubuntu splash screen with the colored dots, ...
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Problems with libgtk after upgrading to 16.04
After upgrading ubuntu to 16.04, some graphic things started not working properly. For example, running ccsm from the command line will give me the following error :
Traceback (most recent call last):...
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Ubuntu 14.04 videos and games running slow
I have little problem with Ubuntu here. I was running Windows 8 and then i decide to make dual boot with ubuntu 14.04 (whitch is great system!) but when i boot to Ubuntu i have problems with system ...
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Install Ubuntu on Gigabyte 990FX motherboard
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.10 onto my new computer so I can dual boot with Windows 7. I already have Windows 7 on an SSD set to AHCI and it is in legacy mode. I am trying to install Ubuntu onto ...
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Problems with drivers for ATI Radeon 4500 after upgraded to 14.04
I upgraded to 14.04 and have managed to break by graphics drivers. I'm not even sure where I'm at now.
I have a Dell Studio 15 with a ATI Radeon 4500 video card. I know this is no longer supported by ...
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AMD Radeon HD 7640G/7670M Dual GPU NOT WORKING in UBUNTU 13.04
I'm facing a problem while installing an ATI driver through ADDITIONAL DRIVER. I was trying to install the same in Ubuntu 13.04.
The config of my laptop is AMD Radeon HD 7640G/7670M Dual GPU (1 GB ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 13.10 from 12.04 lts [duplicate]
I have ubuntu 12.04 lts installed on my hp pavilion and I want to try 13.10. When I try to boot into the livecd, I get the purple ubuntu splash screen, then a blackscreen where some text flashes (to ...
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Ubuntu on HP Pavilion g7 1153er with hybrid radeon 6470M and Intel 3000
I will start this thread like most of people.
I am new guy in Ubuntu. I have tried to make right installation but always getting some problems. I have laptop HP Pavilion g7 1153er.
This laptop ...
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How do I install AMD Catalyst Display Driver on Lubuntu 13.04 (Radeon HD4250)
I'm trying to install the drivers for my Radeon HD 4250 graphics card on my Lubuntu 13.04 station.
I want to run multiple monitors (1 VGA 1 HDMI) but I am having overscan issues on the HDMI monitor. ...
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No webGL in Chromium for Radeon Xpress 1250 (RS600M) in Raring
Before I say anything else, here's my lspci response:
$ lspci | grep 'VGA'
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RS600M [Radeon Xpress 1250]
I'm running xubuntu, ...
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Second screen tearing AMD Radeon 5800 HD Ubuntu 12.10
Well, I've been trying to get this work for a while...
The second screen doesn't stop tearing.
I'm using "AMD Catalyst™ 13.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver" which was install according to:
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ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 drivers installation
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my old Macbook Pro 2006. It has a ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 256MB and I would grateful if you could tell me how to install the graphic card drivers.
So far the ...
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Is it ok to run with unknown video device?
I'm new to Linux and just starting to learn. From what I've read and experimented with there's no more support for older ATI Mobility cards. I resolved a few boot issues with my first install of ...
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Is it possible to switch off The AMD ATI Radeon HD 7670M on the HP Envy 6?
I want to buy this laptop, but I have had issues with AMD Radeon in my previous laptop, and I want to be sure I can switch it off and use the internal intel HD4000
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Open-source driver for AMD Radeon HD 6490M
I have HP ProBook 4530s laptop with AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics card. After installing Ubuntu it runs on Intel Sandybridge graphics.
The Ubuntu community page says: "By default Ubuntu will use the ...
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Why doesn't 12.04 recognize my ATI Radeon X300SE graphics card?
So far everything including the BCM4321 card is working, however, the OEM ATI Radeon X300SE (RV370) is not recognized. When I go into system details the card comes up as unknown.
When I run lspci ...
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Radeon 9200 and Unity problems after adding xorg-edgers PPA
I though that doing:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
It will fix my really SLOW interface using Unity in Oneiric...
Now, where I found this "...
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Switched from nVidia to Radeon GPU. Now my screen is all garbled. How do I install the driver?
I found this page, but it doesn't seem to address actually installing anything, just configuration and whether you can use some unmentioned tool or not. I tried doing a software update, the hardware ...
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How can I enable switchable graphics in my Lenovo G770 laptop?
Previously I asked about the same problem in Ubuntu 11.04 with messed up drivers, but now I completely reinstalled system and updated it to latest 11.10.
Last time, I tried using various drivers for ...