AMD Processors - Open Source News and Discussion

AMD Radeon HD 7670M and Ubuntu

tmbdrogba — 2012-08-21T03:00:05 -05.00

Hi,

First, sorry for my English because I'm french.

I have a little question about the support of the AMD Radeon HD 7670M on Ubuntu. Does the Catalyst driver for linux support this graphic card ? Will i be able to easily do a dual screen with this card on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ?

Thank you

AMD System Monitor for linux please!

jeepsteer — 2012-07-01T07:42:13 -05.00

Why haven't AMD made a version for Linux?
Surely lot's of AMD CPUs aren't on Windows 7?

Crossfire problems..

Naru — 2012-06-28T16:35:24 -05.00

Hi, this is the first time using this forum, so pardon, if im posting it at the wrong place...
I got a Dell XPS630I with 2x Radeon 3800 series gpu's, but when i went from vista, to win 7, im not able to use crossfire, beacuse the 2nd gps is listed as disabled, ive tried to go back to vista, but the same problem appeaes now, can anyone help me?

Heat issue fx-4100

foolman555 — 2012-06-22T04:12:04 -05.00

Hi, ive had an amd fx 4100 for about 3 months now and ever since ive got it, it heats up really fast shuts down or freezes. I run a small minecraft server for my friends. Its ok when I run that but when I run minecraft on the same computer it just shuts down or even if i do anything. *temp taken with gigabyte touchbios and CPUID HWMonitor* When I even just might be on internet explorer on ebay or running 2 antiviruses at the same time with no server on it shuts down because the temperature goes to 90 degrees Celcius.
Im not sure if I should take it back for warranty or something??

Thanks

Setup:
Gigabyte 970a-d3 BIOS: F9 *latest
FX-4100 3.6ghz clock
Corsair Vengeance 16gb 1600mhz
Stock cooler
Coolermaster elite 430
5 case fans and neat cable management
120gb Seagate hdd
Asus gt430 clock speed

*Heats up to 90 degrees celcius and shuts down
*temps taken with gigabyte touchbios and CPUID HWMonitor

AMD Catalyst Driver + Dual Graphics Cards

Erebus — 2012-06-11T20:27:12 -05.00

I am currently running Windows 7, despite being a die-hard Linux user. The reason is that my new laptop (HP dv6z) has been configured (when I bought it online via HP) with a dedicated AMD graphics card AND an integrated AMD card / processor.

I am currently using Windows as I heard that there wasn't much support for using dual graphic cards on Linux-based distribution, however I've also read the opposite when it comes to using AMD's proprietary drivers.

So, I'd love a straight answer, if possible. Does the AMD Catalyst Driver support dual-graphic cards that are NOT Intel/AMD but rather AMD/AMD? If so, does it support automatic switching or will I need to open up the terminal and switch which cards that X.Org uses? (I'm comfortable doing this as well).

I already checked, both my cards are listed as supported, so no need to ask me that

Thank you,

Josh

P.S. I asked on the Ubuntu (I use Ubuntu-derived distributions, not specifically Ubuntu) forums, they were absolutely useless when asked.

case desighns

aus-amdfan — 2012-06-11T02:42:15 -05.00

so i thought id do something different and make a thread were people could share and comment on there desighns .butt do keep the picures reasonble size for those on dial up i know nearly everyone these days is using adsl2+ and t1 please keep in mind the ppl who cant afford this luxury .all right know that said heres a few to get you started

p.s if youd like to use any of these case desighns butt with a few canges everything ive done is on google if ya look for it

Radeon 5450 PCI low profile driver?

klabacita — 2012-04-17T01:00:07 -05.00

Hi.

For some technical reasons we decide to get a ati radeon 5450 PCI interface, not a PCI-e, is the old one 5v low profile.

We are working with a tiny linux distribution(puppy and slitaz) and we are doing some programs for this distros that will run on a neoware machine on usb.

The main goal is to connect those devices to TV 32"+ over HDMI, this was one of the reason to purchase a video card with HDMI output, the neoware doesn't have PCI-e slots, just PCI, we don't want to use a VGA converter.

Now, puppy works, we tweak the TV and the xorg settings and we have puppy displaying the desktop in the whole screen.

But is not using the radeon driver, we want to know if exist a driver for this card for linux?

At ATI they just give us PCI-e not PCI.

The other tiny distro slitaz works but, once u try open any menu, program, etc the font size get some bigger that is not possible wot work with.

puppy 5.x, slitaz 3.x, this week we will try slitaz latest 4.0, thanks!!!

ATI 7690M in HP dvt7

tenspd137 — 2012-03-27T11:48:00 -05.00

I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Radeon HD 7690M and Linux on a laptop - particularly the hp dvt7. I am thinking about buying one, but can't get confirmation that Catalyst works with it. I have searched all over with no luck. Thanks!

Trying to install Ubuntu or Mint Linux on Llano laptop

ykhan — 2012-03-04T17:16:34 -05.00

I just bought a new Toshiba laptop, Satellite L745D, which comes with an AMD A6-3400M processor (Llano). The problem is that the latest versions of Linux distros, Ubuntu 11.10 or Mint 12, will not install on the laptop, can't even get the Live CD to start in most cases. It produces a blank screen during install. It seems to me that the Linux AMD video drivers don't support the internal GPU of the Llano. Any idea what's going on?

AMD Catalyst Control Center configuration file, in Linux

fojkok — 2012-02-15T11:01:14 -05.00

Hi,

Does anyone know where AMD Catalyst Control Center, stores its
settings in the home directory, in Linux?

PowerNow technology and Fgrlx. Where to enable?

AndreyPoltavets — 2012-02-08T10:22:25 -05.00

Hi!
Where I may enable PowerNow if I have installed Catalyst from .sh file?
I mean that: if Fgrlx was installed from default OS' utilities (e.g. app `Jockey` in *buntu) AMD CCC has menu named `PowerNow!`, in other case - when installing Fgrlx from .sh file - this menu doesn't appearing in AMD CCC.
So, exactly last case I have right now. I have Salix (Slackware-based OS) on my netbook with installed Fgrlx. How I can enable it for better powersaving?
Or there is other way like editing some file in /sys?

HD 6310 and Linux? Are there good Drivers?

HuckBerry — 2012-01-08T18:15:16 -05.00

I recently got a mini-ITX motherboard to use as a HTPC. The reviews for the board said it had awesome 720p/1080p rendering because of the onboard ATI Radeon HD 6310 graphics.

The reviewers must all have been running windows. I was hoping to use Linux for the HTPC so I could also use it for my torrent server and NAS. Currently I've settled with Linux Mint 11 (Ubuntu 11.04) and the fglrx driver from the repository. With this setup I'm getting lots of stuttering on 720p x264 and I get about 1 frame every second or two on 1080p x264.

Does anyone here use the proprietary driver or have the 6310? Is Linux a good choice as far as graphics go, I know it will fulfill my other needs perfectly? I am open to new distrbutions and am willing to try exparimental drivers.

is Red Hat pro-Intel?

jeepsteer — 2011-12-26T00:01:39 -05.00

I have tried installing Centos and Scientific Linux on AM3 or AM2+ computers, with no
success. I have tried serveral versions, both 32 and 64-bit. I could install Oracle linux, as they have
apparently modified the RHEL source unlike the other distros.
Now the answer I usually get is "ah that ***** is meant for servers, you can't put it on a desktop!"
Yet I have been able to install the RHEL derivitives on desktops running Intel CPUs.

which Linux distributions can cope (efficiciently) with Bulldozer?

jeepsteer — 2011-11-05T07:45:53 -05.00

Among all the criticisms of the Bulldozer, I noticed one discussion about Windows 7 treating the one-and-a-half core modules as two cores, and the result is like trying to pass 8 cans of spaghetti throught the eyes of a 6 needles.
So now I am curious: will linux have the same problem? Since server versions of Bulldozer will probably be running Linux, I presume somebody like Oracle has patched it to handle Bulldozers.
Which distros have announced that they are Bulldozer-friendly?

AMD FX8 8 Core Processor and Linux

McDroid — 2011-11-04T18:19:42 -05.00

Greetings to All,

I am trying to install CentOS 6 on an ASUS 990FX with and AMD FX8, 16GB RAM, 4 1TB RAID 10 array. I am having some issues with the system hanging during the formatting process during CentOS 5.6 Final and with CentOS 6.

Your suggestions are welcomed in my trying to resolve this issue.

Thank you,

Ramon

nVidia / AMD Open Source, Unified Driver

nilum — 2011-10-07T23:58:07 -05.00

This is a post I made at the nVidia forums:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=212181

It was a response to my own frustrations with Rage and Carmacks latest response:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10...leading-game-platform/

Advice on Catalyst

articwanderer — 2011-09-13T10:16:50 -05.00

I just built my new system [after about 4 years] and I am still configuring my Kubuntu, which by the way updated my ATI V4800 drivers very well.

Because I use Linux only that means I cannot use the 'bundled' Gigabyte software since it is written for use with Windows and I have no intention of using a crossover like Wine.

I think the AMD Catalyst for Linux would enhance my options on monitoring and adjusting things as far as my chip-set , CPU and ATI card are concerned.

All advice is welcome, Thank You ahead of time for viewing and replying.

Is there a linux driver supporting AMD Radeon HD 6490M in switchable graphics mode?

trenthawkins — 2011-08-11T03:02:47 -05.00

Hi folks,

I am thinking of buying the latest Dell Vostro 3350 with AMD Radeontm HD 6490M GDDR5, 512MB, which can switch to the onboard Intel graphics card.

However i use Linux (Linux Mint Debian Edition & Mepis) and want to be sure that there is a version of the proprietary fglrx driver that can allow me to enable the switching capability.

I have read on Phoronix that the latest drivers can enable a manual switch via rebooting X, however i haven't seen anywhere that lists this particular graphics card as being supported.

Can someone please help.

Ubuntu 'hangs' intermittently during I/O

lister171254 — 2011-08-06T21:06:29 -05.00

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on a software RAID1 and experience the occasional 'system hang' during extended I/O.

With' system hang' I mean the sytem is still up but accepts no input and logs no kernel/system messages and is for all intent and purposes dead until a reboot.

With extended I/O I mean full backups (400GB+), a full check on the array, etc.

I have logged this as an Ubuntu bug, but given that I have configured 10+ other systems the same and have never seen this problem, nobody else seems to have a similar problem, I'm looking for other possible reasons for this behaviour.

One possibility would be the controller. I'm running a GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard and the disks are controlled by a AMD SB750 controller

Any constructive feedback is appreciated.

fm1 board question

aus-amdfan — 2011-08-01T04:09:55 -05.00

im planning on building a lan rig ATM and wanted use the A8-3850 Llano chip but all the all fm1 boards ive been looking at say crossfire ready but say nothing about sli .am i right to assume that they decieded not to put this on the fm1 socket

Fix for Debian/Ubuntu Linux "shpchp: Cannot Reserve MMIO Region" Boot Message/Error on AMD-based systems.

Trevayne10 — 2011-07-09T16:43:40 -05.00

Here's a fix for owners of any AMD-based PCs out there who installed Ubuntu/Debian/Mint Linux, and are getting the REALLY annoying "shpchp Cannot reserve MMIO region" message flash by on bootup:

1. Open up a terminal, and sudo to root. ("sudo su - ")

2. Go into /etc/modprobe.d/ (will show up as "/etc/modprobe.d$" in your terminal)

3. Create a new file in that directory, calling it anything you want (I called my file "blacklist-shpchp"), and put the following entry into it:

blacklist shpchp

4. That's it. Save changes and reboot.

Problem solved! No more "shpcph Cannot reserve MMIO region" message, and your system will boot a bit faster.

What this fix does is prevent the PCI Hotplug module from loading. Not really needed. Unless you *really* need to hotplug and unplug PCI cards.

This fix gets rid of the issue entirely.

New Hardware with Ubuntu

RBR — 2011-07-06T22:37:52 -05.00

Just a comment here.

I finally got around to using Ubuntu again after installing my new hardware, and I forgot how much fun it can be to get everything working again. The ATI proprietary driver for my graphics card completely disappeared and my secondary hard drive refused to mount. In both cases though, Google was certainly my friend. Once I found the correct terminal commands to use, the ATI driver was actually easier to install compared to how it used to be in the "good old days". Then a quick edit of fstab got the hard drive mounted too. Good times.

For me at least, Ubuntu stirs emotions that cannot be matched by any modern version of Windows. Despair when hardware won't work followed by euphoria when it finally does.

Now, I believe I'll replace my Lucid Lynx 10.04 and give Natty Narwhal 11.04 a try just to see what that is all about. They say Gnome is dead - long live Unity. That, plus I'm up for another challenge.

Cheers.

new lian li case

aus-amdfan — 2011-06-25T08:17:06 -05.00

just seen this case the other day and thought id share my finding it defenetlly different

Ati power express 4250/5470

jonny9600 — 2011-06-01T14:03:45 -05.00

Hello, hope you all having a great day

Well heres my problem, i'm running ubuntu 11.04, and i just installed ati radeon catalyst 11.5 drivers on it. I was reading and in some notes i read that those drivers suppose to come with Powerexpress technology =/ and i can't really switch my adapters.

After installing drivers ati catalyst only detects my weaker card (4250) and i don't really want to use it i prefer my 5470 dedicated gpu.

Is there anyway to fix this problem? i don't care disabling the 4250 i just wanna use my 5470 to play some cool linux games !! and have better performance, doesn't matter if i can't switch back to 4250.

Any help will be appreciated thanx =)!!!

I'm Running HP dv6 laptop with Amd phenom II x3 p820 with the 880 g chip.

PS: <3 <3 <3 AMD! <3 <3 <3

Linux hardware acceleration with HD4530

txboy — 2011-05-29T04:47:36 -05.00

Hi everybody.

I'm just here looking for a linux fglrx driver guru.

I did post this at phoronix forum some months ago.
I wasn't able to get harware accel on my EEEPC EB1006 with ATI HD4530.

What really makes me angry is that it works on windows ONLY doing one thing: setting the DisablePCIEx1LaneUVD registry entry to 0 with the program DXVA Checker.
In fact the Asus version of Catalyst driver contain this change but the original ATI Catalyst not.

I'm almost shure that if I find a way to disable that on Linux it will work, cause it works on windows.

Any help will be apreciated.

Thanks in advance.

AMD-ATI accereration in Ubuntu 11.04 with latest vmware and HD RADEON

tunczyk — 2011-05-28T05:18:28 -05.00

Good day all, my English is poor. My question is which driver do you use in this distribution. I'm doing this: aptitude install fglrx, then initial process and all work good, but may be better is install this driver: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/li...r-11-5-x86.x86_64.run. In ubuntu 11.04 default X is UNITY, not GNOME! Does anyone have any experience?

Book suggestion ?

articwanderer — 2011-03-30T17:16:15 -05.00

If anyone knows a good text book or other for learning command-line arguments in Linux [Ubuntu specific if possible] I would welcome any and all recommendations. I never saw a computer in High school and that was a long time ago and I am getting use to the GUI in Ubuntu but know the real power in any Linux Distro. is via the Terminal.
All Hail to AMD and ATI for giving customers what they need without spending money on the TV>shame Intel and MS shame and more shame

help with openssuse linux 11.4 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

sombriks — 2011-03-29T20:20:23 -05.00

hello all,

is there any way to get a working version of ATI linux driver for linux directly from the opensuse repository? last time i've tried it my X server crashed and never returned again.

this repository:

http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.4

from this file:

opensuse-community.org/ati.ymp

works perfectly for 3xxx series and 4xxx series, but crashed my 5470 card.

any help is welcome.

also, to install the driver directly from the .run package from amd site is even worse, i tried and lost my 3D capabilities completely, i got to do a reinstall.

ATI Graphic Card

mspolia — 2011-03-27T11:11:09 -05.00

Microbytes assembled my tower with ATI Radeon 3650 card.
Now, after 2 years, I am experiencing corrupt S-Video connection for watching videos, random blue screen and random black screen. Microbytes run its testing system and it comes out alright. Regardless, after bringing my system home, the problems persists.
The catalyst system is updated. According to microbytes, it has installed a new graphic card with same specifications.
I am trying to pinpoint the problem. Below are some of the error messages appeared on my screen.

Screen froze such that the mouse could not do many functions, some it could do, mouse was able to click randomly - 10:02am March 27, 2011

Screen went black at 9:24am on March 27, 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011, 2:09am
BCCode : ea BCP1 : 88F6D020 BCP2 : 89D13F60 BCP3 : 89B1D818
BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1

C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERff48.dir00\Mini021211-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERff48.dir00\sysdata.xml

Saturday, February 12, 2011, 1:36pm
BCCode : ea BCP1 : 8815AB30 BCP2 : 899B1008 BCP3 : 89B6FAF8
BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1

C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc4bc.dir00\Mini021211-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc4bc.dir00\sysdata.xml

Thank you. Monika

tracking AMD Catalyst upgrades

articwanderer — 2011-03-27T10:09:44 -05.00

I'm looking for the best way to track the release and updated features of AMD Catalyst drivers for both on-bard graphics and also the Workstation ATI cards. I use Ubuntu Linux and I realize there is a lag time between U releases and Catalyst upgrade releases. I am just wondering , other than Press Releases if there is a way to keep on top of the upgraded 'features' of a new Catalyst release?

illumOS & OpenIndiana Suport for AMD Fusion

handoyog — 2011-03-08T10:58:15 -05.00

This message is dedicated for someone developing device drivers & optimization on OpenSource inside AMD

Can someone contribute to illumOS ( www.illumos.org ) / OpenIndiana ( www.openindiana.org ) ?

It is a fork off OpenSolaris, where illumOS is the "core", including kernels, and OpenIndiana is the OS Distro.

Since AMD Fusion attracts many HTPC / Embedded Computer, and since "The Future is Fusion", it is necessary to leverage integrated features of AMD Fusion into those kernels and distributions

I know AMD has good collaboration with Sun Microsystem (prior to acquisition), but not ORACLE ( Oracle said it will just support one vendor for x86, which is Intel )

Also, ATI implementation on Solaris is not as friendly as NVIDIA.

youtube error fix

aus-amdfan — 2011-02-09T08:05:05 -05.00

after haveing loads of issuses watching youtube vids on my pc i found the answer after a couple of hours of sifting loads of out and out crap and driver doctor ads i finally cane across the answer by updateing the bios on my graphic card using atiwinflash and havent had an issue yet

setup specs
AMD 1090t BE @ 4029MHZ
Gigabyte 890fxa-ud7
1600mhz ddr3 g-skill (8gig total)
ati 5870
raid-0 using 2 500g sata 3 wd blue
armor + case
850 psu
tt liquid cooling setup

Upgrading computer, A bit confused

Elliottlives — 2010-12-12T04:03:01 -05.00

Sup guys Uhh i have just bought Call of duty black ops and come to my surprise I cannot get past the menu without it crashing on me, at the moment i have a Processor:Amd Athlon 64 processor 3000+,Video card:Geforce 9500 Gt , 1.81 Ghz and 3.00 GB of ram, A friend of mine has built this computer for me about 4 years ago and has moved since, I was hoping to upgrade my Cpu but am hoping not to spend over 250$ if any one can give me some advice as to how i would go about upgrading my cpu or buying a new cpu, or what ever would help me to enhance the over all performance of my computer i would be really appreciative any additional help would also be gr8ly appreciated

Ubuntu Help

Hondo=TFD= — 2010-11-11T11:40:52 -05.00

I just installed ubuntu last night got everything working. Took me a while, but i finally got it lol. The problem I'm having is this, I use facebook and myspace a lot, playing mobsters on myspace and farmville on facebook. When I click on the farmville icon, it just hangs, same with mobsters. I've searched the forums, did some things, removed all flash utilities and reinstalled just adobe flash. I've tried this on FF and Chrome.

I've found the direct link to farmville and I can get in that way, but it's real choppy. Just don't know the work around for this. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I have the latest version of Ubuntu 32b.

Regards

ATI driver installer Linux 64-bit not working

yeyang — 2010-09-25T12:20:03 -05.00

The kernel patch cve-2010-3081 seems to break ATI driver installer for Linux 64-bit. I am using opensuse 11.3.

Thanks!

http://www.pubbs.net/201009/de...nges-internal-api.html

Need help finding the driver update!

Honu — 2010-09-14T04:23:43 -05.00

I went to 'www.amd.com' and went to 'Support & Drivers' to get the updated driver for my graphics card. After filling out the steps with what I had, it lead me to the download page and so I downloaded what it recommended to me.
after I had downloaded it, I ran it and attempted to install but it gave me the error that it couldn't because I didn't have the right, you know.

I was wondering if someone could help me find the correct driver for me since I seem to be lost. I'm using a TOSHIBA Laptop, Windows XP 32-bit. Graphics card is ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M SERIES.

It would be great if someone could help me out here.

ATI 10.8 Beta

B-Shot — 2010-08-21T11:45:00 -05.00

10.8 Beta
Installed and working fine wont be able to test for a few days.
Miss ya guys, just been working 60 hrs a week and faimly has alot fo health issues,looking forward to start thrashing hardware again soon.

ubuntu and AMD PHENOM II x6 1055T

dag1 — 2010-08-18T06:49:19 -05.00

I am considering purchasing AMD PHENOM II x6 1055T box.
I want to install the latest ubuntu.
Does anyone know if Ubuntu works smoothly on the Phenom II machines ?
thanks
Dag

KDE4 and your ATI 5XXX video play back tearing and shearing

4portswitch — 2010-07-21T05:13:24 -05.00

I AM Disappointed. I have two 5XXX video cards. I have newer hardware with dual core processors, your processors. Phenom II X2 555 black edition, MSI 785gtm-e45 Mother boards that work great. They have on board video that doesn't work with your Linux drivers. I think the latest driver is 10.4 available for Linux? MY QUESTION IS; Why wont you fix video playback in Linux? I mean all Linux distros. Even the distros you claim to support all have video playback and compatibility issues.
You stand to lose all the customer base you built within the Linux community. I am a paying customer. We are all paying. I paid you for video cards that you said would play back video, well, in Linux based systems, on LCD monitors. What I got from your vendors and you, was a bad set of video cards that can't play back video without constant tearing and shearing. If it was just my cards I would not be writing this. It's not just one card or just my cards, It's everyone's cards. Everything I read so far ends up with you, AMD/ATI, wiping your hands of any responsibility for the products you sell to the public. While we all scurry around trying to get this garbage to work for you. Your behavior in this matter is similar to Microsoft or a high-school student who just got caught smoking on school grounds. "It wasn't me! We didn't do anything wrong!" as the kid stands in front of his teacher with a cigarette in his mouth. Well you did do something wrong. You sold all of us a product you knew wouldn't work the way you advertised it would. You conned us all. I wont buy another video card from you or your vendors. Meanwhile were all stuck making excuses for you. No longer. You know what the one, really cool thing about this situation is? I don't need you for anything. There are other people who sell this junk to, LOL. You have no control in this situation. All you can do now is try to recover whatever dignity you had while we all buy something else. Smoke that.

how to install the catalyst driver on Kubuntu (Linux) using a radeon hd 5 series card

kubuntu — 2010-07-14T11:43:05 -05.00

Hello,

I want to buy an new pc with a radeon hd 5750 or 5670, but I use Linux, too. I've read, that the open source driver don't support this cards today. But there's only this driver preinstalled. So how is it posible to install the Catalyst driver? Do I need another card for installing the driver (I've none and there is no IGP), or runs for example the terminal without the driver? What's with the vesa mode?