This question already has answers here: Ubuntu Won’t Boot After Install on Samsung NP915S3G: error “All boot options are tried.” [duplicate] (2 answers) Can’t boot Ubuntu or Windows 8 after Ubuntu 64-bit install on Samsung series 7 Windows 8 laptop, error “All boot options are tried.” (2 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I am new … Read more
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 index of each below: 14.04 13.04 12.10 12.04 11.10/11.04 etc Answer The … Read more
I’m running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10, and I would like to update GNOME to 3.18. I have tried using the normal terminal commands suggested to update GNOME like sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging and sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade However, using an AMD GPU and wanting to continue using the proprietary drivers for now, … Read more
So I decided to try to do sth with my graphics on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 but unfortunately it is so confusing what to do and what to use that i have just lost inside all these forum threads. Below is my configuration and some dmesg output: $ lspci -k | grep VGA -A2 00:02.0 VGA … Read more
I’ve got a fresh install of Lubuntu 16.04 with dual boot. It worked well the first few times I started it but it doesn t work anymore. I get a black screen after selecting the default choice in GRUB. However, if I launch recovery mode, and choose “resume” I get a low definition but otherwise … Read more
I’ve a system with AMD GX-412HC SOC with Radeon(TM) R3E Graphics ×4 I’ve read that proprietary drivers (fglrx) aren’t supported but I still need to enable hardware acceleration for my video player (mpv) mpv –hwdec=vaapi -vo opengl-hq video.mp4 This is what I get Playing: video.mp4 (+) Video –vid=1 (*) (h264) (+) Audio –aid=1 –alang=eng (*) … Read more
so, I tried a clean install of 16.04 LTS, is there any way to find out whether my AMD graphics card is fully supported by the driver ? Cuz my screen is flickering I’m not talking gaming, just the open source driver that is replacing the fglrx driver. I’m using a hybrid Intel/AMD system. Here’s … Read more
I’m having a problem using plot commands using python-matplotlib and Octave ever since I installed Octave. Prior to installing Octave v4.0.2, I was able to plot with Matplotlib v. 1.5.1 just fine. Upon installing Octave, I cannot plot in Octave or Matplotlib. Instead, the script hangs at the line where the plot command is called. … Read more
FULL DISCLOSURE: First time Ubuntu user here. I currently have an ATI Radeon HD 2900 in my PC (I believe R600); I can boot into Ubuntu 16.04, however it crashes almost as soon as Unity loads, and I get the following error message repeated rapidly at a full screen command prompt: “Radeon Ring 0 stalled … Read more
I have just upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 and lspci -nn reports: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) … 09:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265 / M340/M360] [1002:6900] (rev ff) If I run glxinfo instead I get: OpenGL vendor … Read more
