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FGLRX (FireGL and Radeon for X) is the proprietary AMD display driver. Use this tag if you have trouble using or installing the FGLRX driver.

The FGLRX (FireGL and Radeon for X) driver is the proprietary AMD display driver. It can be installed from the "Additional Drivers" panel in System Settings or a download from the official AMD site.

FGLRX supports 3D acceleration for AMD graphics cards.

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Differences between the 2 FGLRX graphics drivers

I currently installed Ubuntu 11.10 and when I am prompted to install Additional Drivers, I get confused on which to use between the 2 FGLRX graphics drivers: ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX…
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How do I remove the proprietary ATI drivers?

I've installed 11.10 and the proprietary ATI drivers using "additional drivers" The performance of my system is absolutely awful and it shouldn't be. I tried to remove the proprietary drivers using the Additional Drivers tool and it appears to…
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What is the difference between fglrx and fglrx-updates?

What is the difference between the two ATI drivers fglrx and fglrx-updates, and what one should I install with a machine with an AMD R7 260X video card? I have found outdated information on the Steam Forums that said there were the same driver, and…
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15.04 Installed fglrx AMD/ATI drivers -- won't boot

I installed the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers on Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit, and restarted my PC. Now, it will show the Ubuntu logo, but won't go to the login screen. I can't switch to a terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1, CTRL+ALT+F2, etc. I'm unsure how to uninstall…
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Installing ATI Catalyst 14.20 beta on Ubuntu 12.04 throws error

The Internet is full of this kind of issues, like the guys from ATI wouldn't even bother to test their installers. I am trying to get the latest driver because Skyrim (with Wine) freezes so badly that I have to un-plug/reset the computer. I am…
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How do I check fglrx's version?

I'd like to know the version of fglrx installed in my Ubuntu 10.04.3 box. I'm not familiar with fglrx, so I found several ways by Google. 1 cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx [...] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information: (II) fglrx(0): …
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Basic question on setting higher screen resolution

I have two Intel Core2 Duo desktop PCs both connected to an iiyama Prolite E2407HDS monitor through a VGA switch box. I've just reformatted the hard drive and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on one. In descending order of priority, the things I want to be…
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fglrx causes black screen

i recently installed ubuntu 14.04 directly off usb thumbdrive and it works fine, besides not locating drivers for my x99a mothrboard wifi in the update drivers section it did however locate my gpu's drivers (3x390x) but when i update these drivers…
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video problem after upgrade 10.04 to 11.04

after upgrading to 11.04, screen shows 'razor-type' diagonal lines, overlapping text, missing lines etc. which go away, when move (refresh) the page up or down. kernel version 2.6.38-11-generic. graphics card: mobility Radeon 9600 M10 following…
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DKMS issue with 'sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*'

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fglrx-14.10.1006.1001 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'fglrx-14.10.1006.1001' I am…
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How to prevent updating an application which is not a package?

I loaded AMD's FGLRX drivers and Catalyst manager using a script downloaded from their site thusly: made myself root, then "sh amd-install-correct-fglrx.run" in the recovery mode command line after making / rw and purging as best I could all of…
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Missing RAM and Unsupported hardware driver issue

In a bottom right corner, appear a logo "AMD Unsupportde hardware". I've tryed to follow some procedure (sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates --- then reboot) but doesn't disappear. Ubuntu find drivers by it-self, "fgrlx ATI/AMD" and ""fgrlx ATI/AMD"…
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fglrx: No matching Device section for instance... found. how to fix it?

I have HD 4850 card, Ubuntu 12.10 and installed legacy drivers using makson96 ppa. The issue is, that FGLRX can not detect my device and loads vesa bios. I had the same problem on ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 versions. I want to manually help fglrx find a…
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Radeon HD4850 card, ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Installed FGLRX drivers, but still running vesa, how to solve it?

I have an ati HD4850 card, ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. To begin with, after a fresh install, i installed fglrx drvers from system -- additional drivers, according to fglrxifo everything was alright, but the system was running on vesa:sem. After that, i have…
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Problem with graphics on 12.10

I just installed 12.10 x86_64 to my new computer My hardware specs are: amd fx8120 cpu, ati hd 7770, msi 990 fxa I'm facing the following error: 2012-11-17 18:19:04,393 WARNING: /sys/module/fglrx/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind fglrx…
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