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amd radeon 270x mess up my ubuntu installation

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July 3, 2014 9:50:56 AM

first i installed windows 8.1 with the intregrated intel GPU 4600.
then after some weeks i got a new amd radeon 270x and all worked fine in windows.
then i installed ubuntu and everything was laggy (in ubuntu), i intalled the updates it didnt help.
i know it is the amd card, beacuse when i shift to the intregated one, all works fine.
now when i try too boot ubuntu its just black. ):
i do use the open source driver.
i can enter recovery mode.


GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5
ubuntu version: 14.04

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July 3, 2014 10:46:21 AM

post your "dmesg" log to pastebin.com
probably ubuntu does not have updated firmware for this chipset and is using vesa driver
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July 6, 2014 11:29:18 PM

Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers (I think that's what it's called, it's late ... I'm tired) and use the proprietary drivers.

There should be 2 or 3 frglx drivers;
Experimental
frglx
frglx-post update
or, you can manually install the latest drivers via terminal ... but that method is involved and can break your OS if not careful.

My HD 7870 runs fine on Linux Mint 17 (basically Ubuntu 14.04 with Cinnamon DE) using the device drivers - post update. The r9 270/270x are basically rebranded 7870s

As for the black screen there should be an option in GRUB to use basic graphics ... I can remember off the top of my head right but I had to do that when I was using Ubuntu 12.04 and my HD6790. I think you press F8 but I could be wrong about that, like I said it's been like 2 years since last had to do that. Worst case scenario you will need to a fresh install of Ubuntu (which is sometimes the easiest route to take, just back up your data with the live disk if you have to)
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July 22, 2014 11:38:58 AM

sulumordna said:
Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers (I think that's what it's called, it's late ... I'm tired) and use the proprietary drivers.

There should be 2 or 3 frglx drivers;
Experimental
frglx
frglx-post update
or, you can manually install the latest drivers via terminal ... but that method is involved and can break your OS if not careful.

My HD 7870 runs fine on Linux Mint 17 (basically Ubuntu 14.04 with Cinnamon DE) using the device drivers - post update. The r9 270/270x are basically rebranded 7870s

As for the black screen there should be an option in GRUB to use basic graphics ... I can remember off the top of my head right but I had to do that when I was using Ubuntu 12.04 and my HD6790. I think you press F8 but I could be wrong about that, like I said it's been like 2 years since last had to do that. Worst case scenario you will need to a fresh install of Ubuntu (which is sometimes the easiest route to take, just back up your data with the live disk if you have to)


thanks for the advice! and sorry for the long time, i went on holiday...
its the 3 time i do the clean ubuntu install beacuse it didnt work and it dont still do.

sorry it was my fault. 14.04 does not have official driver support yet.
the driver 14.6 is still in beta, so i just need to wait.
or it is something that are wrong?
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-L...

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July 22, 2014 2:45:09 PM

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Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers


This is just plain wrong. The radeonsi driver is very new and receiving active development in the kernel drivers and mesa.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=ra...
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/li...

Suggest trying a more up to date distribution like Debian "testing", fedora " rawhide ", or ArchLinux/Antergos Linux. These will have more up to date drivers for your card.
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July 22, 2014 3:28:21 PM

taenbolle said:
sulumordna said:
Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers (I think that's what it's called, it's late ... I'm tired) and use the proprietary drivers.

There should be 2 or 3 frglx drivers;
Experimental
frglx
frglx-post update
or, you can manually install the latest drivers via terminal ... but that method is involved and can break your OS if not careful.

My HD 7870 runs fine on Linux Mint 17 (basically Ubuntu 14.04 with Cinnamon DE) using the device drivers - post update. The r9 270/270x are basically rebranded 7870s

As for the black screen there should be an option in GRUB to use basic graphics ... I can remember off the top of my head right but I had to do that when I was using Ubuntu 12.04 and my HD6790. I think you press F8 but I could be wrong about that, like I said it's been like 2 years since last had to do that. Worst case scenario you will need to a fresh install of Ubuntu (which is sometimes the easiest route to take, just back up your data with the live disk if you have to)


thanks for the advice! and sorry for the long time, i went on holiday...
its the 3 time i do the clean ubuntu install beacuse it didnt work and it dont still do.

sorry it was my fault. 14.04 does not have official driver support yet.
the driver 14.6 is still in beta, so i just need to wait.
or it is something that are wrong?
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-L...



skittle said:
Quote:
Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers


This is just plain wrong. The radeonsi driver is very new and receiving active development in the kernel drivers and mesa.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=ra...
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/li...

Suggest trying a more up to date distribution like Debian "testing", fedora " rawhide ", or ArchLinux/Antergos Linux. These will have more up to date drivers for your card.


fedora 20 doesn't have active support for catalyst drivers ... 14.04 is a brand new version Ubuntu, it's very "up to date"
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July 22, 2014 4:08:04 PM

skittle said:
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Updates wont do much for the graphics card, you need togo to device drivers


This is just plain wrong. The radeonsi driver is very new and receiving active development in the kernel drivers and mesa.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=ra...
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/li...

Suggest trying a more up to date distribution like Debian "testing", fedora " rawhide ", or ArchLinux/Antergos Linux. These will have more up to date drivers for your card.


Radeon drivers and Linux aren't that new, maybe radeonsi is but that's not what's in question here. I am not wrong, updating the system won't magically install AMD's proprietary drivers. If (and a BIG IF) gallium has an updated driver it might see release via the updates.

The only way to install the proprietary driver is through the device manager or building a package (in Ubuntu and Debian based distros). Device manager is by far the easier method but you will be stuck with what ever the version is (I might be 14.4 I don't know honestly). Suggesting another distro isn't really a "fix" either. The open source drivers have come a long way and currently work with Steam fairly well.

As I stated before Fedora 20 no longer has a fglrx driver in their non-free repos, 19 was the last version that did, now you have build the package yourself and fro what I hear it's hit and miss. recommending "testing" distros is something I don't do. The OP can't figure out the problem with Ubuntu, what makes you think he has the expertise to do an Arch setup. You may as well have suggested he buy an NVidia card. If the OP is thinking of switching distros then I recommend OpenSUSE 13.1 as being easy to install the proprietary AMD drivers, next to a "buntu" derivative.

OP, I recommend just using the device manager to install AMD's driver for your card. If you want to install the driver from the website PM me and I can walk you through it.

edit
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMz...
that was a year ago already ... not exactly new in the tech world.

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July 22, 2014 5:06:34 PM

No you misunderstand! My point is that you won't *need* fglrx if the most current open source drivers will work with the card. Which implies newer kernel and DRM modules than are found in Ubuntu which is why suggest other distribution that bring more up-to-date software than Ubuntu... Fglrx is a mess anyway. Locked to older kernel version and xorg and must recompile module on every kernel upgrade..

BTW radeon is still undergoing active development and getting new features. Hardware video decoding since 3.10.
DPM since kernel 3.13. 3.14 and 3.15 many bug fixes and DRM improvents. BAPM in 3.16. And AMD has just opensourced the VCE hardware encoding...

Catalyst/fglrx not worth the effort to install. Just brings trouble. Feature wise, radeon driver simply works better than fglrx especially for 2d applications.

Look at kernel git! If you think radeon/radeonsi is no longer getting updates you are sorely mistaken! perhaps you should try your machine using the 2.6 kernel and marvel about how nothing works...
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July 23, 2014 11:36:53 PM

skittle said:
No you misunderstand! My point is that you won't *need* fglrx if the most current open source drivers will work with the card. Which implies newer kernel and DRM modules than are found in Ubuntu which is why suggest other distribution that bring more up-to-date software than Ubuntu... Fglrx is a mess anyway. Locked to older kernel version and xorg and must recompile module on every kernel upgrade..

BTW radeon is still undergoing active development and getting new features. Hardware video decoding since 3.10.
DPM since kernel 3.13. 3.14 and 3.15 many bug fixes and DRM improvents. BAPM in 3.16. And AMD has just opensourced the VCE hardware encoding...

Catalyst/fglrx not worth the effort to install. Just brings trouble. Feature wise, radeon driver simply works better than fglrx especially for 2d applications.

Look at kernel git! If you think radeon/radeonsi is no longer getting updates you are sorely mistaken! perhaps you should try your machine using the 2.6 kernel and marvel about how nothing works...


I apologize for coming off as harsh, yes I did misunderstand you. I totally AGREE that fglrx driver is a mess. I had good like with 12.4 I think but it's been downhill since. Radeonsi does look very promising and is already better than AMD's driver according to some reviews I have read.
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August 12, 2014 3:32:27 PM

thanks for advices. installed the open source once more, and everything was the same.
tried the driver from AMD(16.6 beta) and EVERYTHING is now working 100%.
didnt know there where 2 different drivers for linux. :D 
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