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Martin Hope
Lucio
Asked: 2012-10-26 19:36:35 +0800 CST
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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 Supported (Catalyst & Open Source), you can confirm that from this AMD Linux Community thread.

I don't have any problem, except the AMD testing use only watermark. I see the following frame in any stage into the OS (logged, unlloged, etc.) except in the terminals.

IMG0 IMG1

I found different versions of how to remove this image, but this change according to the system, so I want an answer from this popular (trusted) site.

  • How to solve this issue in Ubuntu 12.10 32b?
  • This procedure is different in a 64b system?
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Martin Hope
Marian Lux
Asked: 2012-10-24 03:08:15 +0800 CST
  • 66

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 graphic card was working.

In both cases, I followed this tutorial.

But it is not working on Ubuntu 12.10.

I tested the tutorial with the Catalyst Control Center from the Ubuntu Software Center, the version 12.8 and version 12.9. Always the same problem: After installation process I am able to boot in the login-screen. But after entering the password for my username, only the background-image appears. Unity seems not to be starting. I am only able to reach the context-menu by right clicking the mouse button.

I also tried his fix, but is also does not work for me.

Any ideas what to do to fix this problem?

Update: Same problem on Ubuntu 13.04!

Update: Solution for 13.04 ist not working on Ubuntu 13.10!

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Martin Hope
THpubs
Asked: 2012-10-19 22:05:19 +0800 CST
  • 46

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 12.10, after installing, Unity won't load.

Only the mouse and the wallpaper. If I initialize the settings sudo aticonfig --initial then after rebooting it gives a warning saying I'm in low graphics mode! How to fix this?

Earlier I used software source to install the drivers. But when using the terminal, I got this warning : 

update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf because link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf is broken

Update : Filed a bug report in launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/fglrx/+bug/1068661

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Martin Hope
kenneth dyson
Asked: 2011-10-25 05:36:32 +0800 CST
  • 18

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 display setting that works is "mirror". when i pick to extend the display at the proper resolution (1280:1084, samsung) (1600:900, laptop) for each screen I get the following:

required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(2880, 1024), minimum=(320, 200), maximum=(1600, 1600).

when i try to execute the resolutions that are set at default, after unchecking the "mirror screens" button (1152:864, samsung) (1600:900, laptop) i get the following:

requested position/size for CRTC 148 is outside the allowed limit: position=(1152, 0), size=(1152, 864), maximum=(1600, 1600)

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