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Questions tagged [fglrx]

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How to lock one mouse/keyboard pair to each screen?

Using the ATI Catalyst Control Center (fglrx), I setup two desktops (the multidesktop option) via dual-head. Now I have two mice and keyboards (USB) attached which, using xinput can be put in two separate groups. Can I lock each group to one screen?…
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How to set up Linux for full AMD APU power management support: Turbo Core, Cool'n'Quiet, Dynamic Power Management?

My objective is to set up a mini server (not HTPC) with low power consumption in idle mode, yet offering nice performance when used. The focus is more on data safety than availability. In other words: quality parts, but redundancy only for…
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xorg memory leak

I've read this question but it doesn't seem to be the same issue, as the memory leak there is an order of magnitude smaller than mine and seems to be caused by Nvidia drivers.. Here's my top output at the moment: top - 03:51:03 up 7 days, 11:09, 11…
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Missing "version.h" when installing fglrx

I have downloaded the fglrx driver installer from the ATI drivers page. when I start the installation, everything goes smoothly until I hit an error message, telling me to check /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log. The contents of that file are as…
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Can't get lm-sensors to ouput correctly or load ATI Radeon temp and fan

I am new to Linux and having minor issues. I followed this guide initially, but did not receive the proper output, and it did not show my ATI Radeon HD 5000 temperature or fan speed. Then I used this guide, and the same problems were exhibited. I…
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Split a physical X display into two virtual displays?

I just purchased a TripleHead2Go and configured it using OSX. What this box does is simply take 1-3 multiple external monitors and combine their signal into one single resolution. I'm using two external 1920x1080 displays with it, bringing my…
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fglrx on Debian stretch

How do I install the fglrx driver on Debian stretch? The package tracker states that there is no package available right now, so I added Sid, pinned on 100. When I try to install fglrx-driver now, aptitude returns something about xorg-video-abi-18,…
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Choppy animations in desktop using fglrx driver in openSUSE 11.4

I downloaded and installed the ATI driver, but my desktop effects were not working. Moving windows creates choppy animations. I changed the rendering backend in kwin from openGL to xrender and the desktop effects worked, but my 3Dchess din't work…
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X server with fglrx driver won't responce after exactly 49 accesses to X server

I have Arch linux with minimal amount of packages including xorg group and catalyst. I run X :0 and then run in infinity cycle following monitoring script: while [ true ]; do DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --odgt | grep Sensor sleep 1 done In normal…
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3D Graphics Support on a Radeon 6870 for steam gaming

I'm running Arch Linux and I'm trying to get a Radeon HD 6870 setup for gaming on Steam, specifically for Windows games such as Skyrim and Dark Souls 3 using Wine. I've done this on a desktop with identical hardware, but an nVidia card, and…
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Linux Mint does not shut down

Sometimes (very rarely actually) I have a problem that when I try to shut down my desktop, it will freeze with the following screen and I can only shut it down by pressing the power button for 8 seconds: Does anyone know why this error occurs? I am…
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How to install AMD Catalyst 15.7 (fglrx 15.20.1046) on Debian 8 (Jessie)?

A while ago I downloaded Debian 8 and I tried to install Catalyst 15.7, but when restarting the computer, I get a black screen on my laptop. I read that Catalyst has some compatibility issues with GNOME. If any of you know how to fix this error,…
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How do I remove a driver when apt-get remove fails?

I am trying to remove fglrx-driver as part of an upgrade from wheezy to jessie. Running apt-get dist-upgrade failed with the following message: fglrx-driver ... dpkg: error processing fglrx-driver (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal…
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How to compile AMD Legacy driver on 64-bit kernel, Linux Mint 17

I'm trying to get the legacy driver for my HD 2400 GPU but I had an error while it was building. I looked at this answer, and have the same result, in the driver manager is empty: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/106918/72663 In order to get past…
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GNOME doesn't work on Debian Jessie after installing fglrx

I'm using 64bit Debian Jessie and followed these instruction to install fglrx for Radeon HD 7000 series: https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary However GNOME doesn't work after it. I installed different desktop environments and it worked. With…
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