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Screen tearing and graphical glitches in Loki
To fix Firefox tearing, try opening about:config, setting gfx.xrender.enabled to true, then restart Firefox.
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How is your support for older 64 bit AMD processors?
This is kind of subjective but actually there is no problem at all running elementary OS 0.4 loki on 2 core AMD 64 bit if you have enough RAM (4-8 GB)
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Will elementary OS Loki support fglrx?
No.
AMD dropped the flgrx support for the version of the Xorg server that Ubuntu 16.04 ships with.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-March/016315.html
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Can I use an eGPU with elementary OS and if so, how do I set it up?
TLDR;
YES, it is possible. And NO it's not hard at all.
My setup
I'm using a DELL XPS 13 (9370), which has two Thunderbolt 3 ports. For the eGPU enclosure, I went with a Razer Core X, which is ranked ...
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AMD GPU Pro on Loki (Ubuntu 16.04)
Edit the following file: amdgpu-pro-install
on line 74: (it is 74 for me)
# os_release
add that hashtag # to os_release
that calls a function to check for your system type (as far as I understand ...
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Odin - No backlight after suspend
I was able to fix it after all. Updating to kernel 5.14 broke my trackpad, whilst trying to fix that I came across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/mmptqi/...
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Hera 5.1 Stable installer boots to corrupted graphics on AMD 550RX 4GB
SOLVED:
One thing I noticed while going through this old system was that it only had 2GB of RAM. I happened to have some memory laying around that worked for this system and after upgrading it to only ...
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Screen tearing and graphical glitches in Loki
Please go to the gpu site and click downloads click graphics driver select ubuntu or linux option and ur 64 bit or 32bit archetecture option that will help you out otherwise delete firefox and try ...
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Can't install AMD drivers on ElementaryOS Hera - Unsupported DEB-based OS
you will must make some modifications in the system, look this link:
AMDGPU-Pro on Juno to improve performance and compability
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System won't wake up after suspend (black screen)
Well I've tried a lot of solutions that I found out there in another stack-overflow forums, but sadly it didn't work, but at the end I found a lead that takes me for one solution that work with my ...
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Increased idle RAM usage with time on eos Juno
I updated my kernel to kernel v4.18 on my Acer laptop with a AMD A12 and Radeon RX and it gave me all types of problems, went back to 4.15 and the problems stopped. I would try down grading your ...
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AMDGPU-Pro on Juno to improve performance and compability
I recommend the latest MESA drivers, you could add the official repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
They work very well in my case,...
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AMD Dual GPU Issue
Thanks a lot ! I did many research (and re-install ^^") before seeing your answer... and i found a solution which, i think, is interesting
When you're installing Elementary OS, he ask if you want to
...
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Cant Install/Boot elementary OS with GPU + AMD PRO WX2100
According to this the AMD PRO WX 2100 doesn't work really well under linux at the moment.
Updating your kernel to a more recent version may make it work. Here you can download the necessary packages.
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add support for AMD graphics card
It is necessary to know more information about your system, but I will tell you what worked in my case:
download the driver from the official website of amd. After that unzip and edit the files ...
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changing drivers from mesa to AMD
No, there is no need to remove mesa before installing AMD's driver. And the answer by Suditu George is almost completely incorrect. AMD does provide drivers for 16.04 in the form of AMDGPU-PRO.
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Installing proper video drivers
Which driver did you try? There's quite a few details missing here so you'll have to be a bit more descriptive. From a quick scan of AMD's closed source driver page, they ended support for 5000 series ...
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Amd CPU ryzen supported?
As a workaround, you might want to try to install 4.11 from the Ubuntu mainline kernels.
You can download and install from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.11.4/ the following ...
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How do I install AMD drivers for rx480 card?
Do the following steps to install amdgpu-pro drivers for Radeon RX 480:
1) Download driver https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.50-511655.tar.xz
2) Go to your Downloads directory ...
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When will elementary OS get Linux Kernel 4.10?
It is not at all likely that 0.4 loki gets kernel 4.10 as the default kernel. However, you can install it via
sudo apt install linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04-edge
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AMDGPU-PRO driver on loki
Try to use the Autoinstall command in Terminal. This should work in every ubuntu and debian distro variants
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Also try to update your Kernel and make sure that your OS ...
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Black screen or kernel panic after suspend?
I solved my problem by updating the kernel to the latest version (4.6.5) following these instructions:
To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.6.5 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04
Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15....
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Loki: AMDGPU-PRO drivers black screen my machine
I also have an AMD RX 460 based card that I got a few weeks ago which I understand is not quite yet supported by Ubuntu 16.04 (and thus Loki) with the current 4.4 kernel but if you wait for just a few ...
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AMD R9 390 not running games with AMDGPU
This may help:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/301897/amd-gpu-pro-on-loki-ubuntu-16-04-kernel-4-4/308584
I do believe that your card is supported by the new AMD driver, however it's not ...
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Is it possible to install AMD GPU-PRO on Freya?
amdgpu-pro doesn't support your card
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/wiki/index/graphics#wiki_how_to_install_amdgpu-pro_hybrid_drivers
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elementary OS VM on new laptop and AMD video card, how to change video driver
The Virtual Box forum provided an answer so I thought I would share it in case anyone else encounters this problem. The solution was to Enable 3D Acceleration on the VM.
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AMD A8 HP laptop loud fan
Try upgrading to kernel 4.4 by running
cd /tmp
wget \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.6-wily/linux-headers-4.4.6-040406_4.4.6-040406.201603161231_all.deb \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/...
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After fglx update can't use gui
https://askubuntu.com/questions/68306/how-do-i-remove-the-proprietary-ati-drivers
Will this also work on elementary OS? I am afraid to try it, since last time I did stuff myself I must have made ...
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