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Questions tagged [fglrx]

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Faking monitor EDID information

My monitor is sort of finicky. Sometimes I run a program that cycles through resolutions and the monitor will refuse to give its EDID information for a few days: (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) [ 239.653] (II) fglrx(0): Restoring Recent Mode via PCS is not…
amphetamachine
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Grub2: is it possible to disable graphics drivers through kernel boot command?

Questions Here are my questions: is it possible to disable the fglrx Linux driver or do anything to suppress functionality (e.g. 3D acceleration) that is not cross-hardware compatible via a grub configuration? If so, how would this be…
Jonathan Voss
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Is there analog of aticonfig --set-powerstate for open source radeon driver?

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on relatively old laptop with ATI Mobility x600 inside. On the last version of Ubuntu, when I was able to run proprietary fglrx driver, I was able to slow down graphic card by aticonfig --set-powerstate 1 and save some…
vava
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Unexplained red dots in screenshot

I've been having the weirdest problem with some aspect of my operating system: This is a screenshot of Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 running in Linux 2.6.37.6 with Xorg server 1.9.5 with the FGLRX display drivers 8.841 on a Radeon HD 4870. The display…
amphetamachine
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SublimeText - Ubuntu 14.04 (Radeon 8650) - Very slow performance

I've been using Sublime for a couple of years now and it's been fine until a couple of days back, when I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 on a AMD APU A10 machine. I was using 12.04 on a Core i3 processor till then. My Configuration is: AMD APU 10 - AMD…
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How to use ati's fglrx drivers on Fedora 11

Has anyone got a clue what is required to make old Fedora 10 ati fglrx drivers from Livna rpm repository on Fedora 11 ? There was once similar pathway when fedora10 was out but ati didnt support fedoras new kernel and or Xorg version yet so that you…
rasjani
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Strange fglrx slow down under Debian

I am getting a weird slowdown on all non-OpenGL applications while running some OpenGL applications such as Chromium (while playing a YouTube video), Steam and Blender. Games are running perfectly fine, I really don't know what's causing that…
Axel Isouard
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fglrx-legacy-driver not seeing Radeon HD 4650 AGP

I am running Debian Squeeze on an old Dell Dimension 8300 box. It has an AGP Radeon HD 4650 card. I use this machine to mine bitcoins, and today I noticed that the machine had rebooted! My precious uptime! Anyway, my miner wouldn't start, so I…
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debian64 wheezy with fglrx 1:12-1-2 shows different server and client glx string

I'm trying to get wine compiled with debian64 wheezy; however, the configure script shows at the end: configure: WARNING: No OpenGL library found on this system. OpenGL and Direct3D won't be supported. This irks me immensely, since I planned to…
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Gentoo fglrx doesn't allow a virtual screen big enough

Using fglrx and trying to set up dual-monitor setup here. Here's what xrandr says: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1600 x 1600 So, you know this one already, right? All I have to do is adjust Virtual screen size in…
mike3996
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Ubuntu 10.10 no video from ATI HD5770

I had an issue with my video card not rendering dual monitors correctly so I attempted to remove and reinstall the fglrx drivers. I followed these steps. FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh # (if it exists) sudo…
Jeremy B.
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Ubuntu 15.04 + AMD,purple screen when booting after install,stuck at initramdisk

I installed Ubuntu 15.04 on a Seagate expansion drive. I tried booting it up from my machine, but it hangs (and I waited over 30 mins, just to be sure). I tried using the drive from an Intel based PC, and it worked like a charm. I then tried…
vamsiampolu
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fglrx drivers cause blank luks encryption password screen on boot, on Linux Mint Petra 16

I recently did a new install of Linux Mint 16 Petra on my main desktop, and used the full disk encryption option from the installer. The installation went smoothly, and the encryption password prompt displayed normally before boot (immediately after…
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Problems with ATI's driver (weird glitches and screenshots not working)

I have a problem with fglrx, it's 3 things: It's slow, really slow (2800-/+fps in glxgears, in Fedora 17 it used to be about 7-8k) Weird glitches sometimes appear on the screen, when launching apps like steam and such, and steam icon doesn't show…
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Missing linux headers during ATI driver installation

I've updated the kernel on my Linux Mint following this tutorial. But now, when I try to install the latest fglrx, I'm getting this error: Check if system has the tools required for installation. fglrx installation requires that the system have…
Pavel Plzák
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