Questions tagged [amd-radeon]
Radeon is a brand of graphics adapters produced by AMD, first launched in 2000 by ATI Technologies.
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How to stop windows resizing when the monitor display channel is turned off / switched to different source
I have a new 6870 Amd Radeon adapter with its drivers set to 1080p 60Hz resolution hooked up to a 2008 47" high end Samsung HDMI based TV.
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Broken mouse cursor on main monitor, Windows 7 64 Bit, ATI Radeon HD 7870
UPDATE: Please check out the new answer I've posted to this problem. It might be that a solution to this frustrating problem exists now. Scroll down to see it.
Quite a while ago my graphic card died ...
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How does one manually restart graphics drivers?
I'm suffering from the dreaded Radeon mouse cursor corruption. The problem is intermittent and can be "solved" by putting the computer to sleep or restarting it. I hope simply restarting the graphics ...
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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?
I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube.
Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration.
The drivers for the graphics card are installed.
The ...
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How do I enable/disable overscan on my TV in Catalyst Control Center?
I've connected my PC to my TV via HDMI (I've also tried using DVI). Whatever the resolution (anything from 800 x 600 to 1080p), the image displayed on the TV does not fill the entire screen surface; ...
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ATI CrossFire instability and horizontal bands?
I recently added another ATI 5870 card to my system to experiment with ATI Crossfire (dual GPU) performance increases.
However, I've had a lot of intermittent stability problems, most seriously a set ...
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ATI Radeon 5770 Eyefinity - three monitors
How do I setup Eyefinity to support three monitors on a Radeon HD 5770 card? Currently I can setup only two at once in any combination.
Monitors are connected as DVI-DVI-HDMI.
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How do I know if I have KMS enabled?
How can I check if KMS is enabled in my kernel? I've compiled mine with KMS radeon modeset defaulting to 1, but I still suspect that it is not enabled.
EDIT:
aatiis@aiur ~ $ dmesg | grep drm
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How to determine max supportable display resolution? [duplicate]
I'm trying to determine what is the highest monitor resolution that will be supported by a computer.
System
Win XP-era Compaq Presario SR1750NX that contains
Radeon Xpress 200 integrated graphics ...
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Prevent Radeon driver from attaching to specific PCI devices?
I have two Radeon cards in this machine, a Radeon HD 6570 and a Radeon HD 6950:
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [Radeon HD 6570]
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Is it possible to dedicate a monitor for VirtualBox use?
Configuration
Windows 7
Intel i7-based platform
ATI Raedon HD 5850 Display card
VirtualBox with Ubuntu 10.10 as guest
Problem:
I wanted to connect another monitor to my current setup (Which is a ...
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3 Monitor PCI-e Graphics card on Linux (without tremendous pain)?
As we are all painfully aware, the only way to get multiple monitors AND compositing (Compiz) on Linux is to use a single graphics card that can drive both (or in my case all three) screens.
I bought ...
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OpenGL 2.1 or higher for Windows XP
For a game I need OpenGL 2.1 or higher, but I want it to run on my good old Win XP box with an ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. It currently seems to have OpenGL 1.3.1008 WinXP Release and graphics ...
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What is 'clean install' vs 'install' in AMD Graphics software?
I am trying to install 'Radeon Software' version 'Crimson ReLive Edition 16.12.1'
When installing, I have two options: 'install' vs 'clean install'; what is the difference?
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A PCI Express 3.0 Video Card into a PCI-E 1.0 x16 slot
Perhaps I'm trying to push my mobo too hard, but I think I have read that PCI-e 3.0 is back compatible to previous PCI-e specifications. But 3.0 into a 1.0, is it possibly asking too much?
I'm ...
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ATI and Ctrl+Shift+F11
I have a Radeon HD 6850 and when I push Ctrl + Shift + F11, it decides to do some really stupid thing and change the colors. Pushing again Ctrl + Shift + F11 does absolutely nothing. Taking a print ...
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My display is blank when I turn on my HDTV connected to Media Center
When I turn on my TV, it's often the case that the screen is blank and I have to unplug / plug the HDMI cable connected from the Windows Media Center to a Samsung LED TV.
This problem only occurs ...
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How to find out exact model of ATI video card you have?
I'm trying to find out remotely what type of video card I have in order to get a fan for it, i'ts made by ATI (it's actually manufactured by ATI and not a third party company), the drivers only say ...
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Does the Radeon HD 5450 support three displays?
I know that ATI.com says that the Radeon HD 5450 supports three displays. My question is, how does it support three displays without DisplayPort? I see only VGA, HDMI, and DVI on 5450s.
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How can I view my video card's temperature via SSH?
I've finally managed to set up my two ATI Radeon 6950 video cards in my machine, but the cards can get quite hot. Based on the arrangement of my apartment, I want to be able to SSH into the machine an ...
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When AC Power is disconnected, atibtmon.exe throws a Runtime error
The installer is not working for my ATI mobility Radeon HD 3670 on Dell XPS Studio 16 using Windows 8 PRO 64 bits. Here are the screenshots of my ATI Radeon configuration:
Hardware configuration
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Adding dual monitor settings to xorg.conf.d
I have Ubuntu Studio 12.04 Precise Pangolin with XFCE as its default desktop.
My old HIS ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card was adding red crud across the screen with the generic driver, but downloading ...
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ATI HDMI Audio disappears in Windows 7 when a TV is connected
So far I have unsuccessfully googled for HOURS with no luck fixing this very annoying problem.
The settings is the following:
I have PC running Windows 7 RC (64-bit)
Video card is a ATI Radeon 4850 ...
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Use NVIDIA and ATI cards in the same Linux computer
I've got the following graphics cards installed in my computer:
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 4770 [RV740]
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ...
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Multiple video cards on Windows 7
I've got an Nvidia Geforce 9500GT and am thinking of buying an ATI Radeon HD 4850. I have two PCI-Express slots. Would I be able to run these cards simultaneously on Windows 7? I want to also be ...
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what is the difference between Radeon Software Crimson and AMD Catalyst Control Center
I recently purchased Hp 15-ab027tx which comes with Radeon R7 M360 gpu and installed AMD catalyst control center. When i checked AMD website,I noticed to download Radeon Software Crimson for notebooks....
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AMD Radeon settings: "to ensure compatibility this application is locked" for important apps like chrome
I run Windows 10.
I have an "AMD Radeon R5 M330" GPU and an "Intel HD Graphics 5500" GPU on the laptop I just bought. I want to use the former for as many apps as possible, including Chrome.
I ...
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Over/underclock 5870 on Linux without limits?
I want to downclock my ATI Radeon HD5870's memory to 300Mhz and overclock it's core frequency to 930Mhz. I can do this on windows using ATI Tray Tools.
On Linux, the only way to do this so far has ...
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How to change brightness in FreeBSD?
I installed FreeBSD 10.3 stable on my HP laptop and installed Mate desktop, but I can not change laptop's brightness.
I used xrandr, xbacklight, redshift and they did not work. I loaded acpi_video ...
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3 Monitors on Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 [duplicate]
I've got a decent machine, 8 GB RAM, good motherboard etc and an Radeon HD6870 GC. I'm desperately trying to run three monitors on the card. The card has 1 HDMI, 2 DVI and 2 Mini DisplayPorts. The set ...
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Radeon 5830: How to get two monitors working?
Using Windows 7. I got a new Radeon HD 5830 video card with 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 DisplayPort. I'm trying to get two monitors working. First monitor connected to DVI port works. Second monitor ...
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How do I disable Vari-Bright (atibtmon.exe) without Catalyst Control Center?
Related to: When AC Power is disconnected, atibtmon.exe throws a Runtime error
I have a very similar configuration, ATI mobility Radeon HD 3670 on Dell XPS Studio 16 using Windows 7 64-bit, and have ...
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How to remove the black borders after installing Windows 8?
I installed Windows 8 on my PC and now only 80% of the screen is used. There is a black border around my screen.
I own a Acer Predator G3610 with AMD Radeon HD 7670 and a 1920 x 1080 Acer monitor (...
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ATI Temperature Monitoring
I'm trying to monitor the temperature of my GPUs (multiple ATI 5970) in my computation cluster. Problem is that the aticonfig tool does not work in headless mode
# /usr/bin/aticonfig --od-...
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How to get X to ignore my primary GPU?
I have a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max motherboard with two GPUs in it. My "main" GPU is an NVidia GeForce GTX 1660, and is located in the primary GPU slot (PCI_E1, located closest to the CPU and ...
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How can I fit 6 7970 Graphics Cards in one computer?
Okay, based on my previous question, it turns out I can find a motherboard to support 6 PCI slots and therefore 6 GPUs. But now I want to use 6 GPU's, specifically, the Radeon 7970.
Obviously, they ...
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Can't get 3 monitors to work at the same time with 2x ATI 6900 with DVI
I have 3 monitors, with two ATI 6900. I want to use all monitors using DVI. Is this possible? I'm using Windows 7. I can only get two of the monitors to work at the same time.
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X freeze with proprietary fglrx driver on radeon HD 5970
I can't get to install the proprietary driver "fglrx" with ATI Radeon HD 5970 on Debian Squeeze.
After the installation with ATI Catalyst 12-8 and a reboot, from the stage of GDM, the screen is ...
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Is integrated graphics card Radeon HD 4200 capable of handling full HD?
I enjoy my integrated graphics card Radeon HD 4200 at resolution of 1280x1024 pixels on a 19" inches LG Flatron (5: 4 aspect ratio) (playing FIFA 10 at max resolution, max quality). But recently I ...
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Dell U2414H monitor not recognized as supporting MST (Daisy chaining DisplayLink)
I have two Dell U2414H monitors, and I'm trying to use multi-stream transport to daisy-chain the second monitor from the first monitor. According to the manual, this is supported. I've also followed ...
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Why does ATI 5570 HD video card driver installation cause Windows 7 To Blue Screen?
This one is for the hive mind. I have a brand new Dell Optiplex 760 workstation with 4 gigabytes of RAM running Windows 7 Professional (32bit). This is a new box with nothing installed other than what ...
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How do I watch 1080p video on this setup computer without lagg?
My hardware:
CPU: Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: Radeon HD5750
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Codecs: K-lite codec pack default install
I'm trying to watch a 1080p bluray movie backup by ...
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Desktop not recognizing second monitor plugged into VGA port
I've got a Dell Vostro 470 with an AMD Radion HD 7570 graphics card.
On the back of my computer, I see a VDI port (looks like it is added as extra) and a VGA port.
The primary monitor that I bought ...
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Using PhysX on a Radeon GPU?
Is it possible to get PhysX to run on a Radeon GPU? I've seen various posts on forums claiming someone has found a way, but I was unable to locate any actual guides or software downloads to do it. ...
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Whats the Min and Max temperature of an ATI Raedon HD 5800 series?
I am having heat problems with my ATI Radeon HD 5800 series card, the minimum temperature of my card is 45C and max I have had it at was 90C. Do I have a heat problem or is this the temperature the ...
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Does radeon.hw_i2c=1 has any thing to do with temperature readings?
I want to read the temperature out from an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4290] card if possible. It is integrated on an ASUS M4A89GTDPRO/USB3 motherboard.
sensors-detect ...
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Do I need any AMD Radeon driver for fedora 20?
This is the first time I am using AMD products, so I am not sure.
I have a laptop which has AMD Radeon 8240 (with 512MB graphics memory) and I have just installed fedora 20.
Do I need any driver for ...
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ATI Radeon FPS drops
Problem
For some reason my Radeon HD 5700 seems to suffer from FPS drops.
600W power supply should be enough
The core temperature when the FPS dropped was ~53 C (127 F)
The GPU utilization is ...
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ATI Radeon HD 4650 - Screen flickers
I will start with my system specs:
Motherboard - Hewlett-Packard HP d530 SFF
OS - Windows XP Professional SP3 with all updates installed
RAM - 1GB Kingston
Monitor - Samsung SyncMaster 703DF(X)/753DF(...
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How do Radeon driver version numbers work?
I am having a problem with my Radeon 6950, and attempts to solve it are being made worse by the fact that the driver versioning is so confusing (this is my first Radeon card).
I initially installed ...
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