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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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How to use ubuntu 13.04 with ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650] graphics card?
I upgraded from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 on a laptop running an ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650] graphics card. After the update the screen was garbled. If I get into ubuntu via the ubuntu recovery ...
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY
I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
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Xserver crashes with ATI except for root
The xserver stopped working for any normal user except root. The error message and lspci output is posted at http://pastebin.com/VSU50WXW.
I have reinstalled fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle, didn't work. ...
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Install driver ATI RADEON 6230
I had installed Ubuntu 12.10, but wanted to try 12.04, then after the installation finished I not had Unity 3D... So I remembered that when I ran 12.10, in Additional Drivers had something like ...
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Graphics driver for ATI FirePro 2770 not working properly on 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm having the following problems:
My monitor is not detected properly. In System Settings -> Display it says Laptop even though it is a desktop PC (a fairly standard ...
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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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Xorg crash when i updated last xorg-core [closed]
After updating the last version of xorg-core my system (Ubuntu 12.10) is freezing right after boot screen. How do i restore the last stable version of xorg-core? And how do i get data from logs?
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Xorg - Resolution does not fit into screen
I have an 19-inch monitor with a 1366 x 768 native resolution and I'm using an ATI HD Radeon 5670. It does not detect my native resolution automatically, so I've put something like this on my ...
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Dual monitor Ubuntu 12.04 - only one monitor works at a time
Let me preface this by saying I've been searching and hacking at this for a week. I've tried everything that I've ready (that I understand) on the site here and plenty of other sites. I've been a ...
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Ubuntu consistenly restarts at gui interaction
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Gnome. I recently swapped out my AMD gfx card for an Nvidia card and then back again. In the process i have ended up here - a rebooting system.
I have thus far used ...
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Dual monitor extended desktop setup randomly falling back to mirror mode
I just have this strange behavior and couldn't find out what is wrong. Anyone ever saw this kind of error? I checked the xorg log, but wasn't able to identify any obvious error.
My setup:
Notebook ...
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Ati - Problems with open drivers after fglrx remove
I have ubuntu 12.04 and kde 4.10.1.
I have removed fglrx drivers 13.1 doing this:
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
I have also removed xorg.conf (it was in a ...
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How to keep the Xorg settings from the Live CD/USB?
For some reason no matter what I do in regards to getting proper ATI Drivers, nothing works. However, testing out the OS in a Live USB is actually perfect. Full-screen flash works, 3D graphics work, ...
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Graphics drivers “break” right after installation and updating
This happens EVERY time I install Ubuntu. I'll pop the live CD in, and install it. The graphics work fine until I have to install mandatory updates and then restart. From there, I'll be unable to even ...
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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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Ubuntu 12 - Dell Studio XPS 1647 won´t boot
I had installed Ubuntu 12.10 i386 in my Dell Studio XPS 1647 without any big issue. Last days i installed WOW but i got very low fps, i noticed opensource driver was installed and i tried to install ...
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Where can I find a compatible graphics driver for an old unsupported graphics card?
So here's the problem. I have a rather old laptop, bought it in 2007. It's an Acer Aspire 5100-5023 if that means anything to anyone. It has an integrated graphics card, ATI Radeon Xpress 1100. ATI (I ...
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Cursor trapped on secondary X screen
Problem
My mouse keeps getting stuck on DISPLAY=:0.1.
Setup
Three monitors on two cards with two X Screens.
Radeon HD 6950 (00)
DISPLAY=:0.0
Monitor 1 over HDMI
Monitor 2 over DVI
Radeon HD ...
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Mix AMD and Nvidia cards in X?
Is there a way to use 2 monitors on an Nvidia card and an extra monitor on an AMD card?
Acceleration would be fine, but fbdev would also suffice.
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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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Ubuntu 12.10 w/ Kernel 3.7.0.7 and Open Source Driver RESUME/BRIGHTNESS CONTROL
I am using an Inspiron 7520. I got a AMD Radeon HD 7730m running in switching with an Intel 4000 HD. I have updated my Open source drivers with xorg edgers and x-swat. I am running on the kernel 3.7 ...
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Brightness with AMD/Intel open source drivers Ubuntu 12.10
I have an issue with the screen brightness of my computer. I have a Dell Inspiron 7520. I have a AMD Radeon HD 7730m 2gb with a Intel HD 4000, I am currently using the kernel lastest kernel from ...
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Only wallpaper visible after ATI driver installation
I have the ATI (AMD) HD7870 graphic card and I had just installed Ubuntu. With the Open Source drivers the desktop works fine; however, since I have a newer card, I'd like the proprietary drivers ...
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Ubuntu fails to load after installing fglrx
I am using a Toshiba Satellite notebook with Xubuntu 12.10 x86_64. Just now, I installed the fglrx package to be able to use the propriety drivers for my graphics card. However, once I rebooted after ...
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No GUI and no internet
I dual boot 12.10 with Windows 8 on a UEFI system. The other day, I was installing some python stuff when apt-get suggested I run a dpkg command (I have no familiarity with how dpkg works), and that ...
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How can I use VirtualGL or an alternative with XVFB?
I'm running a Ubuntu machine as a client, but I need to start a 3D game to get automated screenshots, but within xvfb so it does not interfere with normal computer function. However, the game is ...
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XORG: No mouse clicks (Radeon HD 3200)
My computer has integrated graphics Radeon HD3200, that brougt me several problems with different versions of Ubuntu.
The only one that I couldn't manage is that every time I restart the PC I have to ...
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Major opcode of failed request: 141 (RANDR) when trying to add a mode with xrandr
I just bought a Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition (T2G-D3D-IF) to drive my three widescreen monitors because the regular fglrx drivers were very sluggish when doing it directly from the video card ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 OpenCL OpenGL Interop with ATI graphics
I have successfully installed the ATI Catalyst drivers on a my ATI hybrid graphics system running on Ubuntu 12.10. I have verified that OpenCL and OpenGL work independently; however OpenCL-OpenGL ...
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Unity does not load when selecting Xorg open source radeon driver
When I select the X.org Radeon open source driver, Unity does not load. However, when I select the Proprietary AMD Driver from the official Ubuntu repository, Unity does load. Why is Unity doing this? ...
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Display glitches running ATI propietary driver under Ubuntu 12.10
I have a lot of problems with the Ati propietary driver (fglrx).
I have an iMac (mid 2011) with a Radeon HD 6900M [1002:6720].
I did not have any problem under Ubuntu 12.04, but since I updated to ...
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How do I install the X.org Radeon/ATI driver?
I recently downloaded version 7 of the Radeon/ATI X.org Driver from this link: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
My question is how do I compile and install it? I don't like ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 triple monitors… so close!
I'm trying to set up 3 monitors using an ATI Radeon HD 5450 and an NVidia 9600 GSO. I know mixing manufacturers is not desirable, but these were the cards I had laying around. After a few days of ...
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How to make an xorg.conf file
this might seem like a stupid question, but I can't find the answer. I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I need to make a custom xorg.conf file. By default, there is not an xorg.conf file on my system. ...
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Mobility Radeon on ubuntu 12.10
10 ubuntu studio and cannot get my ati radeon mobility 4650 to work.
from lshw:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: M96 [Mobility Radeon HD ...
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AMD multimonitor display problem
Firstly, I just got a new AMD radeon 7870. Before I was using an Nvidia 450 gts. I have 4 monitors connected to my GPU. Via the "Additional Drivers" program I installed "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Resolution stuck at 1024x768 using Open Source Radeon Driver
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with an ATI Radeon HD5670 card.
I currently have the open source xorg-edgers driver. I've been using this driver interchangeably with the Radeon open source driver since fglrx ...
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ATI Catalyst and mesa3d gallium driver on the same host
I have the latest ati catalyst driver working on 12.04 and the APP SDK 2.8, with which i can run OpenCL applications on my ATI HD6xxx.
But lately has been released a LLVM OpenCL backend, but it ...
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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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VLC Ati Radeon 6870 Ubuntu 12.04 image skewed flicker
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with ATI Radeon 6870 connected to my 40' Sharp TV.
The video image is slightly jigged, like breaking a bit and slightly delayed. It just isn't smooth. The computer is very ...
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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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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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Can't enable third monitor on second graphics card
I had a system running 12.04 with a Radeon HD4870, and had the monitors correctly setup. I installed a second video card (Radeo HD5700), and can't get the default Monitor app to detect the monitor.
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Xorg becomes unkillable at 3AM
Most nights, some time in the hour of 3AM my xorg process will increase to 100% cpu and gpu load will also increase to 100%. The process also becomes unkillable. I cannot sudo kill -9 it or get back ...
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How to activate fglrx after install?
I have installed the latest fglrx updates for my ATI hd5670 card. It shows installed properly in synaptic package manager but running fglrxinfo shows
badrequest error
I have tried booting into ...
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Screen shifted on an HP LP2065
My graphics performance with ati radeon HD3200 used to be terribly slow with unity (even the 2D performance). Installing the proprietary fglrx driver via the OS interface caused errors and problems.
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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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Need Info about X1200 ATI card + Ubuntu 12.04
I have a X1200 ATI graphics card in a Toshiba Notebook. As other fellows have stated it doesn't have good performance on recent linux distributions (especially Ubuntu) despite the good efforts by the ...
