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long atory short I am incredibly new to linux in general and I have an msi laptop making this more of a pain then I woupd like. Fisrslty I was havingg issues starting up my system due to radeon initialisation issues leadingn to crashes at login. I got on to the system using "safe mode" and managed to install the amdgpu-pro drivers (around 3 hours later) and now the resolution is locked to 800x600 and my duel exsternal monitors arnt being detected. any sugestions?

I am running the newest release of Ubuntu studio 16.04.1 and my adapter is

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Richland [Radeon HD 8650G]
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Richland [Radeon HD 8650G]
    Kernel modules: radeon
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Neptune XT [Radeon HD 8970M]
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Radeon R9 M290X
    Kernel modules: radeon
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  • What is the Ubuntu version? What is the adapter model?
    – Pilot6
    Aug 11, 2016 at 9:07
  • I am using Ubuntu Studio 16.04.1 (the newest release) and I am not sure about the adapter, is there a terminal command I can use to look this up? Aug 11, 2016 at 9:14
  • Please edit your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|Display' terminal command.
    – Pilot6
    Aug 11, 2016 at 9:15
  • There we go, hope this helps Aug 11, 2016 at 9:23

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Your device is not supported by amdgpu-pro. It was a mistake to install it. You need to use radeon driver that is installed by default.

If you have problems with that driver, you can install Ubuntu 14.04 and use the fglrx-updates proprietary driver.

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  • ok so download and re install 14.04 or can i do this through the current install Aug 11, 2016 at 9:58
  • You need to do a fresh install, then run sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates
    – Pilot6
    Aug 11, 2016 at 10:04
  • Ok, thank you. I am downloading 14.04 now and will post back when I have installed. Thanks for all your help too! Aug 11, 2016 at 10:43
  • I have followed the instructions and it has installed but I cant upgrade fglrx because it needs xorg-video-abi-19 but when i go to install that all i get is has no installation candidate Aug 11, 2016 at 23:46

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