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What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?

I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an…
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Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04 and newer on AMD graphics

I have 14.04.5/16.04 or newer and an AMD GPU. I'm not getting the performance I want, and some programs say they need things like OpenCL. I've heard about fglrx, but if I try to install it on my machine, it breaks and I have no GUI. Is there…
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Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04?

The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the "Volcanic Islands" cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX graphics cards will be supported out-of-the-box if…
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After the upgrade to 17.10 I only get a black screen. How do I fix this?

I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade. NOTE: This question (and answer) relate to a specific issue…
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How to install AMD graphic drivers on Ubuntu 18.04

I had always been a Windows user, But yesterday I downloaded and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this page, But I can't find a way to install AMD graphic drivers, Right now Linux only works in recovery mode, in normal mode it shows a blank purple…
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How to get OpenCL to work on an AMD GPU with Ubuntu 16.04?

I have a PC with a: VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X] [1002:6821] (rev ff) (prog-if ff) How can I get OpenCL to work on it? I'm not offered a proprietary driver in…
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No 3d support is available from the host, on all VMware guests

So I'm running VMware Workstation 12 Player on 16.04 host. And every guest i run complains that "No 3d support is available from the host" and "Hardware graphics acceleration is not available" "Accelerate 3D graphics is checked off in the player. I…
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Switch between Intel/AMD GPU on 18.04

I just installed Oibaf's graphics driver, on my laptop, and also Lutris (with Wine and all that) beacuse I want to play games like Diablo 3. Everything worked fine, I also installed vulkan, and Wine + Gallium Nine The output of lshw -c video is : …
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Map is not full screen in Google Earth Pro

I have installed Google Earth Pro 7.3.0.3830 (64-bit) on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. When I launch Google Earth Pro, map is shown in very small window. I have un-installed and re-installed but the problem is as it is.
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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx!

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and there's no fglrx! What happened?
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How do I remove the FGLRX drivers after I've installed them by hand?

I installed ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run downloaded from the ATI Website. However I installed the generic version instead of building a distribution specific installer. Now I have the gnome-shell graphic glitches that are associated with…
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I think I'm using radeon instead of amdgpu? How do I change?

So I'm on 17.04 and I know that amdgpu-pro isn't available on the 4.10 kernel. But I was curious about what I was running, so I used lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' and it returned 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices,…
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xrandr -- how to find the correct RGB full spectrum output command for my system

I have just hooked up my laptop to an external monitor after a "spillage incident" foobared the built-in display. However, when I connect the monitor via an HDMI cable the colours look extremely washed out. I searched around a bit and found this is…
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Revert to open source graphics drivers - options greyed out 14.04

I tried switching to the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers using the Software Center > Edit > Software Sources > Additional drivers window in 14.04, which left me with a scary black-as-the-night screen after reboot. I could not even open the text only…
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Video playback performance issue Ubuntu 18.04

Since the upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 (from 17.10) I started experiencing huge performance issues with video playback, both using VLC and the browser (Youtube). The problem gets more apparent the higher quality the video is (starts at 480p, 1080p is…
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