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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)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tear-free videos for HDTV
Long story short: I use HD6450 to output signal to an HDTV via HDMI. I'm using the proprietary fglrx drivers and like others before me, I'm getting ugly tearing when I play videos (mplayer, VLC, ...) ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Upgrading Ubuntu to 9.04 breaks ATI video card driver, VESA and ati/radeon drivers
I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, and it not only broke the ATI proprietary fglrx driver, but also the ability to use the VESA or open-source ati or radeon drivers.
I have an ATI RV610 which is an ...
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ASUS x54hr Radeon HD 7470m Can't set powerstate with aticonfig --list-powerstates [closed]
mnrl@mnrl-K54HR:~$ aticonfig --list-powerstates
aticonfig: unrecognized option '--list-powerstates'
aticonfig: parsing the command-line failed.
I can use powerplay in amdcccle but i need to control ...
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X randomly freezes durning usage
So, I installed Arch Linux just fine, some drivers and stuff, but it randomly freezes my laptop, even on low usage, forcing me to hard-reset
It froze while toying around in Gnome-3, while using LXDE, ...
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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 ...
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Linux live distro with fglrx preinstalled [closed]
I'd like to try some 3D OpenGL-based apps on Linux, but i've read that i need fglrx, the ATI proprietary drivers to get full 3D acceleration, OpenCL and video decoding suppport.
So i'm looking for a ...
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Keyboard shortcut to rotate screens with fglrx driver?
Does anybody know a keyboard shortcut (or how to set one up) to rotate screens when using the fglrx display driver? I can rotate my screens using the Catalyst Control Center of course, but I would ...
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How do you get compiz working with the ATI fglrx 9.6 driver?
I have Ubuntu 8.10, and I'm trying to get compiz to start. It complains that Xgl, texture_from_pixmap and "Composite extension" are all not present.
It works fine when I only have one monitor ...
