Ubuntu 17.10 display glitch with AMD Radeon RX480

Question

After a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 installation, my screen looks like this:

I cannot read a single character on the screen because of that weird screen noise. Also, my screen's resolution is 2560*1080 but I only get 1920*1080 input signal to my monitor, and the original content of the the display gets shrunk into that smaller resolution.

I can solve this by switching back to Xorg from Wayland.

But I would like to use Wayland if possible because its faster. Thank You!

Edit: my VGA: AMD Radeon RX480 driver is amdgpu and my monitor is LG25UP and connected with HDMI to my VGA.

Please [edit] your question and also include details about how the monitor is connected (DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, VGA, etc). — dobey, Oct 29 '17 at 13:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 26 '17 at 20:24

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Try to use the mesa driver instead of amdgpu. I'm a Fedora user with your same rx480, and with mesa on Wayland I have very good performance.

edited Dec 26 '17 at 20:24

Zanna

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answered Oct 29 '17 at 13:59

Rey Fox

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This is a fresh install, i dont have previous kernels. – SPYFF Oct 29 '17 at 16:20

Ubuntu 17.10 display glitch with AMD Radeon RX480

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