Apu drivers for ubuntu

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peterson99

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I'm new to Linux, and I have recently installed it onto my newly built htpc. Everything works fine except for, a video driver problem. I have an amd apu
A4-3300 Llano. I installed a driver using the additional drivers, in the system options..

It installed a driver called ATI/Amd proprietary FGLRX graphics driver

the driver has many graphical errors upon start up, until I change the resolution of the scree (to anything, even back to the original resolution), after which the driver works perfectly

so I'm wondering how (if ) i can go about getting the original drivers. (will the drivers disk work... i currently don't have a cd drive installed).
 
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maybe ubuntu is using older driver that does not support apu...
to try to fix:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates

if not, get latest from AMD website...

or instead of ubuntu, checkout OpenELEC. Runs on my amd fusion e350 with hardware acceleration out of the box (suggest latest dev/daily build). 0 configuration needed.
http://www.openelec.tv/

peterson99

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Also, in the bottom right corner, it says amd unsupported hardware. So is there no way to get the right drivers?

And as for the default driver, the reason I downloaded this driver, is because the original driver wouldn't let me change the resolution in the options.
- Was I doing something wrong?
 
maybe ubuntu is using older driver that does not support apu...
to try to fix:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates

if not, get latest from AMD website...

or instead of ubuntu, checkout OpenELEC. Runs on my amd fusion e350 with hardware acceleration out of the box (suggest latest dev/daily build). 0 configuration needed.
http://www.openelec.tv/
 
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peterson99

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Thanks, I found the drivers on the amd website (couldn't find a4-3300, so i got the 3400 drivers, but they work fine nonetheless)!

Also, I think the frame rate (when I'm watching 720 mkv vids) seams a bit off, So does anyone know hoe to check this. Or else is there a better codec that someone would recommend?
 
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