Radeon is a brand of graphics adapters produced by AMD, first launched in 2000 by ATI Technologies.
Questions tagged [amd-radeon]
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How to stop windows resizing when the monitor display channel is turned off / switched to different source
I have a new 6870 Amd Radeon adapter with its drivers set to 1080p 60Hz resolution hooked up to a 2008 47" high end Samsung HDMI based TV.
However, when the tv is turned to a different HDMI input -(when I come back into windows) somehow Windows…
Heartspeace
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Broken mouse cursor on main monitor, Windows 7 64 Bit, ATI Radeon HD 7870
UPDATE: Please check out the new answer I've posted to this problem. It might be that a solution to this frustrating problem exists now. Scroll down to see it.
Quite a while ago my graphic card died and I had to buy a new one. I decided for an ASUS…
Waylander
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How does one manually restart graphics drivers?
I'm suffering from the dreaded Radeon mouse cursor corruption. The problem is intermittent and can be "solved" by putting the computer to sleep or restarting it. I hope simply restarting the graphics drivers will remove the symptoms of the problem.…
sequentiallee
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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?
I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube.
Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration.
The drivers for the graphics card are installed.
The statistics in Youtube still show 'software video…
Patrick
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How do I enable/disable overscan on my TV in Catalyst Control Center?
I've connected my PC to my TV via HDMI (I've also tried using DVI). Whatever the resolution (anything from 800 x 600 to 1080p), the image displayed on the TV does not fill the entire screen surface; there's a black border on the edge of the image.…
alex
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ATI CrossFire instability and horizontal bands?
I recently added another ATI 5870 card to my system to experiment with ATI Crossfire (dual GPU) performance increases.
However, I've had a lot of intermittent stability problems, most seriously a set of oscillating horizontal bands which appear…
Jeff Atwood
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ATI Radeon 5770 Eyefinity - three monitors
How do I setup Eyefinity to support three monitors on a Radeon HD 5770 card? Currently I can setup only two at once in any combination.
Monitors are connected as DVI-DVI-HDMI.
Peter Stegnar
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How do I know if I have KMS enabled?
How can I check if KMS is enabled in my kernel? I've compiled mine with KMS radeon modeset defaulting to 1, but I still suspect that it is not enabled.
EDIT:
aatiis@aiur ~ $ dmesg | grep drm
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized…
Attila O.
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How to determine max supportable display resolution?
I'm trying to determine what is the highest monitor resolution that will be supported by a computer.
System
Win XP-era Compaq Presario SR1750NX that contains
Radeon Xpress 200 integrated graphics on an AMD Athlon 64 based motherboard.
The Radeon…
fixer1234
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Prevent Radeon driver from attaching to specific PCI devices?
I have two Radeon cards in this machine, a Radeon HD 6570 and a Radeon HD 6950:
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [Radeon HD 6570]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro…
genpfault
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Is it possible to dedicate a monitor for VirtualBox use?
Configuration
Windows 7
Intel i7-based platform
ATI Raedon HD 5850 Display card
VirtualBox with Ubuntu 10.10 as guest
Problem:
I wanted to connect another monitor to my current setup (Which is a single monitor, dell U2711 monitor) so that it would…
bubu
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3 Monitor PCI-e Graphics card on Linux (without tremendous pain)?
As we are all painfully aware, the only way to get multiple monitors AND compositing (Compiz) on Linux is to use a single graphics card that can drive both (or in my case all three) screens.
I bought a Radeon 5750 specifically because it claims to…
Nick
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OpenGL 2.1 or higher for Windows XP
For a game I need OpenGL 2.1 or higher, but I want it to run on my good old Win XP box with an ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. It currently seems to have OpenGL 1.3.1008 WinXP Release and graphics driver version 6.14.10.6542 installed.
Searching…
Byte Commander
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What is 'clean install' vs 'install' in AMD Graphics software?
I am trying to install 'Radeon Software' version 'Crimson ReLive Edition 16.12.1'
When installing, I have two options: 'install' vs 'clean install'; what is the difference?
user676457
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ATI and Ctrl+Shift+F11
I have a Radeon HD 6850 and when I push Ctrl + Shift + F11, it decides to do some really stupid thing and change the colors. Pushing again Ctrl + Shift + F11 does absolutely nothing. Taking a print screen gives me something like this:
but this…
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