Questions tagged [amd-graphics]
For questions related to AMD graphic cards, their drivers and related problems.
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What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?
I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver?
There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over ...
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?
On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04 and newer on AMD graphics
I have 14.04.5/16.04 or newer and an AMD GPU. I'm not getting the performance I want, and some programs say they need things like OpenCL.
I've heard about fglrx, but if I try to install it on my ...
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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Is my ATI graphics card supported in Ubuntu?
I have an ATI graphics card and I want to know if it is supported and what kind of drivers should I be running to get the best features out of it.
Is my card supported in Ubuntu and what drivers will ...
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Static and crackling in my HDMI audio?
So, I managed to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.04. In Ubuntu 13.04, I installed the drivers for my graphics card(AMD HD Radeon 7700 Series, I'm pretty sure it's a 7790 one and Intel HD Graphics ...
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Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 and higher: fglrx (legacy) 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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Unity missing? Can't see top or side panels [duplicate]
I just removed some effects using ccsm, switched to the AMD proprietary driver, rebooted and after I log in, the unity panel is no longer there. If I hit the windows key or the alt key, nothing ...
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OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems. (steam) AMD DRIVER
When I start steam in a terminal, I get the following error messages
charlie@SteamMPL:~$ steam
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/charlie/.steam/steam»: Es un directorio
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/...
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How to remove the “AMD Testing use only” watermark?
I've installed the latest catalyst driver (beta) following the step in this guide for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal.
My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially ...
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No 3d support is available from the host, on all VMware guests
So I'm running VMware Workstation 12 Player on 16.04 host. And every guest i run complains that "No 3d support is available from the host" and "Hardware graphics acceleration is not available" "...
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How to make an xorg.conf file
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. I know what I need to write in the config, but I just don't know how ...
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Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04?
The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the "Volcanic Islands" cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX ...
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Does Unity require proprietary graphics card drivers?
I understood that the Unity desktop in Natty uses Compiz and therefore requires a graphics card driver that support composition effects. Does this mean if I have an ATI or NVIDIA card I'm forced to ...
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How to install AMD graphic drivers on Ubuntu 18.04
I had always been a Windows user, But yesterday I downloaded and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this page, But I can't find a way to install AMD graphic drivers,
Right now Linux only works in recovery ...
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The selected configuration for displays could not be applied
Just installed 11.10 64bit and followed this guide to install the latest drivers for my Radeon HD 4870.
I have a 24" and a 17" side by side. The larger screen is turned on by default, but the smaller ...
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How to get OpenCL to work on an AMD GPU with Ubuntu 16.04?
I have a PC with a:
VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X] [1002:6821] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
How can I get OpenCL to ...
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After the upgrade to 17.10 I only get a black screen. How do I fix this?
I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade.
NOTE: This ...
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Switch between Intel/AMD GPU on 18.04
I just installed Oibaf's graphics driver, on my laptop, and also Lutris (with Wine and all that) beacuse I want to play games like Diablo 3.
Everything worked fine, I also installed vulkan, and Wine +...
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VLC will sometimes have issues displaying video in fullscreen.
Recently VLC has been having issues displaying video in fullscreen mode. AFAIK, nothing has changed with the video card drivers and it's certainly the same version of VLC. (/me shakes a fist at the ...
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Google Chrome "Flickering"
I am having a problem with Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10 64.
On about 20-30% of web sites the page comes up and starts "flickering". It seems like there is a different or partial rendering of the ...
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How to restart GPU without reboot (softreset)?
How do I restart the GPU from command line?
Using a HP DV6 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04-64 and an ATI mobile GPU. Installed the standard ATI propriety drivers suggested by Ubuntu. When I close the lid, ...
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How can I set up dual monitor display with ATI driver?
I have 11.10 running on a system76 laptop. without the proprietary driver i was able to set up a second monitor (samsung 19") with extended display.
when i activate the proprietary driver, the only ...
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Map is not full screen in Google Earth Pro
I have installed Google Earth Pro 7.3.0.3830 (64-bit) on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
When I launch Google Earth Pro, map is shown in very small window. I have un-installed and re-installed but the problem ...
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Performance being really choppy with ATI drivers
I just updated to the latest version (11.04) yesterday, and ever since then, the system has been really choppy.
I used to have 10.10 installed, and that was running smooth.
Anyone also experiencing ...
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AMD/ATI drivers from website vs. proprietary drivers in Ubuntu 12.04 Repos?
I have 2 questions regarding to different AMD Radeon drivers:
What is the difference between the 3?
AMD/ATI Driver ( 12.04 Repo )
AMD/ATI Driver, Post release update ( 12.04 Repo )
AMD/ATI Driver 12....
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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx!
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx! What happened?
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How do I remove the FGLRX drivers after I've installed them by hand?
I installed ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run downloaded from the ATI Website.
However I installed the generic version instead of building a distribution specific installer.
Now I have the ...
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How can I see the GPU temperture of my ATI graphics card?
I trying to work out how long can my graphics card last with its fan off without overheating.
when I'm browsing the Internet, the graphics card fan is the loudest thing in my computer.
So my ...
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At Present Which is the best choice for a Ubuntu graphics card, AMD or nVidia?
I've been using nVidia cards in Ubuntu boxes for years. The closed source drivers have been great and I've even found my way around the nvidia-settings program when I've needed to. I'm now in the ...
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I think I'm using radeon instead of amdgpu? How do I change?
So I'm on 17.04 and I know that amdgpu-pro isn't available on the 4.10 kernel. But I was curious about what I was running, so I used
lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
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Revert to open source graphics drivers - options greyed out 14.04
I tried switching to the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers using the Software Center > Edit > Software Sources > Additional drivers window in 14.04, which left me with a scary black-as-the-night ...
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xrandr -- how to find the correct RGB full spectrum output command for my system
I have just hooked up my laptop to an external monitor after a "spillage incident" foobared the built-in display. However, when I connect the monitor via an HDMI cable the colours look extremely ...
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Software Updater window not displaying, though open in 13.04
I have a very interesting problem that has just recently developed.
I am routinely getting software updates and I can see the software updater window is available to be displayed on the task bar in ...
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How can I get my monitor's maximum resolution without the proprietary AMD graphic driver installed?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I have an AMD Radeon 5570 HD graphic card. Actually, the default open source REDWOOD drivers aren't allowing me to choose my monitor's maximum screen resolution(which is 1366 ...
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Why does my laptop with AMD Radeon HD 76xx graphics get overheated when using Ubuntu?
I bought a new laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 7. I love working on Ubuntu and hence installed 12.04 on my laptop. I can work on Windows for 6 hours at a stretch and feel the laptop being ...
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Video playback performance issue Ubuntu 18.04
Since the upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 (from 17.10) I started experiencing huge performance issues with video playback, both using VLC and the browser (Youtube).
The problem gets more apparent the higher ...
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How-to remove "amd unsupported hardware" without reinstalling the driver? [duplicate]
I installed driver from Additional drivers.... AMD Radeon HD 6450
My resolution is at maximum and Catalist Control Center is working but I have AMD Unsupported hardware image on the right bottom of ...
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Unity does not start in Ubuntu 13.04
I have upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and I cannot use Unity. I have tried the proprietary driver, both from the official sources and from AMD's website. I have also tried using the open source x.org driver,...
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What is needed to use Raven Ridge Ryzen 5 2400G?
Last week I replaced my Ryzen 5 1600 with a Ryzen 5 2400G. Since then I'm struggling to get the GPU working.
I've tried 16.04.3 vanilla with HWE-kernel 4.13. It works out-of-the-box, but without ...
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Dual Monitor in 12.04 - Sort of works
Not an error, per se, more of an observation. Since upgrading to 12.04, I have found and solved some interesting problems. Given my complete lack of Ubuntu knowledge, this has indeed made me feel more ...
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How to fix error with ATI driver "Error of failed request"?
I installed the fglrx catalyst proprietary driver via this link : http://cisight.com/install-amd-radeon-hd-6470m-and-solve-overheat-on-ubuntu-1110-oneiric/
Running fglrxinfo or glxinfo | grep render ...
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How does the fglrx package's version relate to AMD's version numbers, like Catalyst 12.3?
When I learn about a new version of AMD's graphics driver, I usually see something like "Catalyst 12.3." However, the fglrx package in Ubuntu has a version like 2:8.960-0.
Are these two version ...
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Display problem when adjusting brightness in ubuntu 12.04
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell 1554 laptop.
I was adjusting my screen brightness when this happened :
this has become a recurring problem which is really annoying.
I also want to tell ...
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14.10 wine and fglrx conflict
I've just updated to 14.10 from 14.04, and have come across a problem having both wine and fglrx installed
The wine dependencies that are causing the problem go like this
wine > wine1.6 > wine1.6-...
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ATI/Intel hybrid graphics 16.04 LTS
Since I have an onboard Intel graphics card, and a ATI Radeon display controller, I was wondering if I could switch between the two as my graphics in use, as I could in 14.04 LTS through ATI Catalyst?
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Amd Radeons Overscan is reset after every boot
I have an AMD Radeon 6850 in my set up which is connected to my monitor via an hdmi cable. After installing the latest fglrx drivers, version 12.6, I need to drag the overscan slider all the way to ...
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Reason to keep a GPU in a computer that is running Ubuntu Server
After a problem with my old motherboard, I'm switching my Ubuntu to my gaming computer. My main question is: is there any reason to keep my AMD HD 7850 running on this computer?
My motherboard has ...
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Intel/AMD Hybrid graphics Ubuntu 18.04
Working through a minefield of information at the moment and need help.
I've got a Dell Latitude E5570 which is setup with Hybrid graphics, Intel/AMD as such:
$inxi -Fzx
Graphics: Card-1: Intel ...
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How to install Radeon Open Source Driver?
I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots.
I uninstalled the proprietary ...
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