Questions tagged [catalyst]

Questions related to AMD Catalyst.

29 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
3 votes
2 answers
287 views

How to toggle easily between the AMD Catalyst driver and the open-source Radeon driver?

I've got an AMD Radeon R9 270X that works very well with the open-source Radeon driver. However, I am going to occasionally be using an OpenCL application that requires the proprietary Catalyst ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 32.1k
3 votes
0 answers
319 views

Configuring AMD Raedon 6700m on Dell 4600m precision. Ubuntu 12.10

I'm having a nightmare with Ubuntu 12.10 due to my graphic card. I have a Dell precision 4600m laptop coming with an AMD Raedon 6700m HD graphic card working on Ubuntu 12.10. Recently, I wanted to ...
Taha's user avatar
  • 31
2 votes
0 answers
304 views

GPU under constant 25-30% load

Currently on a fresh install of 12.10 with Unity and the newest AMD 13.3 beta 3 catalyst driver. But even when on the desktop with no programs open it seems to be idling at 25-30% GPU usage and 47-51°...
phYnc's user avatar
  • 21
2 votes
0 answers
262 views

Amd catalyst drivers increases screen contrast if laptop is on battery power

How to prevent catalyst drivers from increasing contrast if I switch from power supply to battery power? One oddity about this is that increase in contrast isn't shown in the drivers settings, e.g. if ...
user148977's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
321 views

Unable to overscan at lower resolution with AMD ATI

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest ATI drivers installed. I have the catalyst option but I am unable to set overscan. My default resolution is 1920*1080 on 15inch display. I want to set it to ...
Basavaraj's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
261 views

Login Loop after trying to install AMD catalyst proprietary driver on 14.04LTS

I am new to Ubuntu, unfortunately i made the error of installing the wrong driver for catalyst, and it didnt support my card. I uninstalled as per the wiki, but after that, trying to reinstall the ...
Tuckshoprn's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

AMD Hybrid catalyst driver installation for 14.10

Is there any worked procedure to install catalyst driver on AMD Hybrid with powerXpress on Utopic? I have tried the procedure explained in wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Trusty_Installation_Guide ...
Muhammad Fuady's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
1k views

Ubuntu 14.04 and latest supported AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver (fglrx) intermittently hangs system - unreliable stability

My system reliability has been compromised since upgrading to Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 on a AMD64 system with a Radeon R9 290X card and installing the official AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver. It now hangs ...
Stacey Pellegrino's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
582 views

AMD/ATI Sun PRO Radeon HD 8570A/8570M cannot install catalyst ubuntu 14.04

I am unable to install catalyst drivers for Radeon HD 8570M graphic card. If I use new drivers from AMD site I will get an error during the installation like cannot detect suported videocard. If I use ...
Peter Ágh's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
972 views

Radeon r7 reported as hd 8600 "oland" on Ubuntu 12.04 with AMD proprietory driver

Can anyone tell me why loaded latest fglrx Ati/AMD prorietory driver is identified as "oland" with Radeon HD 6800 VGA card (command: fglrxinfo); and also CCC identifies (catalyst 13.12 stable ...
meggypej's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
677 views

Ubuntu 13.10 screen flashing and is not going to login screen after I installed AMD Catalyst driver

So I installed the AMD Catalyst driver, rebooted and then the screen started to shift between black screen and normal screen every ~5 sec. Also it does not go to the normal login screen anymore.
Toby's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
1 answer
2k views

How to enable multiple displays with Catalyst drivers in 13.04?

First, I installed Ubuntu 13.04. I have an ATI Radeon HD 7850. The open source drivers allowed multiple displays, but were horrendously laggy (even opening a browser window took several seconds). ...
Lokitez's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

AMD/DTI Radeo HD 5450 SUpported?

I have a XFX HD 5450 based card I would like to install on my desktop running Ubuntu 13.04. The opensource drive doesn't implement 3D acceleration, making it impractical for Unity/Compiz. I followed ...
user155382's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
825 views

Unable to see Desktop in 12.10 after installing AMD Catalyst

I followed a tutorial to install the AMD catalyst for my GPU. When Ubuntu boots, all I can see is my desktop background. I can right click on it. Is there something I can do to fix this? Oh and the ...
user110477's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
164 views

FGLRX 3D won't work

I have followed all the steps to get FGLRX Catalyst 12.8 installed. It seems to be installed, but I getting terrible distortions on my screen: And I can only access Unity 2D. Any thoughts on fixing ...
Dominic Jordan Hasford's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
7k views

How to install drivers for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200?

I followed a guide to install drivers for my graphic card, However when I restart, Ubuntu merely shows a blank screen. I can get a terminal through CTRL+ALT+F1, but that's about it. Where exactly am I ...
Seth's user avatar
  • 11
0 votes
1 answer
217 views

Hp ProBook - upon boot up screen is black, does not wake

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit After a fresh install on my laptop. Black screen on boot, no cursor, screen is off. I have to force close, then powering up for the second time the system will boot up fine. ...
pst007x's user avatar
  • 8,052
0 votes
1 answer
991 views

Can't login after installing AMD drivers in Ubuntu 15.10

As mentioned above, the login screen loops after installing the graphics drivers. I have tried to login via the terminal and purge it all again, but it does not help. I have tried three times, and all ...
mx1977's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
2 answers
1k views

Help with AMD Catalyst 15.9 and screen tearing Ubuntu 15.04

I am running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 with the latest AMD Catalyst 15.9 on an HP Envy 15 with an AMD Radeon HD 7750m. I am somewhat of a noob with Linux and I've found solutions that led to some screen ...
Bc4006a's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
423 views

How do I install AMD Drivers on Ubuntu 14.04?

I was planning on doing a Windows build but I had problems getting Daz to work so I'm here now. I'm trying to download the proprietary drivers for my AMD Radeon HD 6870 but nothing is working. I ...
tallmansam's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
268 views

Catalyst Control Center

I have this installed, but then what? Is this an application that you can open up and modify or is it like a driver that you just download and not touch again?
Tator_Soldier's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

Fullscreen tearing in Firefox Flash video with AMD Catalyst drivers

Since upgrading to Linux Mint 17, every time I put a flash video into fullscreen it starts tearing up, then freezes after a couple seconds. This only happens when I have the proprietary AMD drivers ...
lsterzinger's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
290 views

I have the black screen after installing ati control center

I am new to Ubuntu , and I tried to install the amd catalyst control center on Ubuntu 13.04 ,but after installing i can't do anything because it only shows me the black screen. What can I do? Please ...
Keuthony's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
888 views

Which version of Catalyst AMD graphics driver will be default in Ubuntu 13.10

Could it be 13.11? It is important becouse older version does not work with my graphics and Unity.
bhoy's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
1 answer
217 views

Janitor broke my visual interface - Xubuntu 12.04

yesterday a performed a couple of updates and after that i have executed Janitor (from within ubuntu-tweak) to cleanup (incl. everything, also old kernels) my system (Xubuntu 12.04.2, running on a ...
Calle's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
1 answer
90 views

Which drivers should I install?

i'm currently using Catalyst 13.4 on Dell 1749 i3 (GPU: ATI5650) but last time I saw in the window of "Sotware and Updates", that there are new: I checked them out. I used early Catalyst 13.4 and ...
mentoss47's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
833 views

Install AMD catalyst drivers 12.8

I have a HP g6 2105tx laptop. I have Intel graphics 4000 and AMD Radeon 7670m graphics in it. I want to know how to install the drivers for such hybrid graphics. I have ubuntu 12.04 LTS with kernel ...
Akash Suvarna's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
416 views

Install Catalyst 12.1 Driver makes system Slower

I'm using a Toshiba Satellite T135D with GPU Radeon Mobility HD 3200 I've installed latest driver catalyst from AMD and why the graphics performance of my laptop become slower than previous? My step ...
Iki Char Asuka's user avatar
-1 votes
3 answers
1k views

Installing ATI Catalyst in Samsung 305u Notebook

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Samsung 305U notebook. The thing is when I close de lid it does't resume from suspension, the same problem reported Here. I removed the proprietary video drivers ...
Pablo Viollier's user avatar