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Title: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 27, 2015, 01:14:13 PM

Any way to install the latest AMD Drivers i am just wondering the omega ones and if so will they get good performance like ti is now if not I wont bother.

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: Jerry on February 27, 2015, 02:15:34 PM

We need to know what graphics card your using first before we can recommend a driver :)

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: Scott on February 27, 2015, 02:18:45 PM

Please see the Linux Lite Manual for additional information on the topic:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardware.html (https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardware.html)

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: altman on February 27, 2015, 04:57:14 PM

Post this command in Terminal :

 inxi -Gxx


, someone might give you a hand .

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 27, 2015, 05:02:38 PM

Here you go guys.

Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:68b8
           X.Org: 1.15.1 driver: fglrx Resolution: [email protected], [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series GLX Version: 4.3.12798 - CPC 13.35.1005 Direct Rendering: Yes

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: altman on February 27, 2015, 05:09:58 PM

As from personal experience , I had my install working with the Catalyst Driver at one time , then reinstalled my distro because of experiments that went south big time , I just did a fresh reinstall then tried the newest Catalyst Driver & screwed the install again because of it , now I m with Obiaf PPA but it s on the bleading edge so to speak , so not recommended for stable lts installs , but for me , it doesn t matter much , used to be with either Aptosid , Siduction , Semplice , so it was a ride . lol

Here s some response from amd itself : http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=488&threadid=182221

Also have a look at Scott s link above .

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 27, 2015, 05:15:16 PM

I only have one issue the games freeze and lock up for 30 seconds and then work? also the windows minimizing are a bit laggy?

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: altman on February 27, 2015, 05:19:22 PM

This might solve the issue , but still another bleeding edge ubuntu ppa , but had no issue with : https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

I can t say that their wont be any issues as always .

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 27, 2015, 05:30:56 PM

how I install this any ideas? i am not %100 sure xorg-edgers fresh X crack

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: altman on February 27, 2015, 05:40:39 PM

I did it that way : open Synaptic , then in Synaptic you get to Settings on top of window ! s , click on it , go to Repositories , click on Other Softwares on top again , then add this repo in it :


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu trusty main

Press on Close on buttom right of window .

 then refresh repo , Mark Upgrade then Apply . Should be good . After that I would reboot .

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 27, 2015, 05:42:55 PM

error occured?

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4F191A5A8844C542

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: altman on February 27, 2015, 05:45:06 PM

No worries : Get out of Synaptic .

Do this in Terminal :



sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4F191A5A8844C542



& do a sudo apt-get update , then get back in Synaptic

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: Jerry on February 27, 2015, 09:53:50 PM

I'd really rather you have had followed Scott's advice and seek instruction from the Help Manual.

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 28, 2015, 02:37:40 AM

already done that my issue is games a are freezing every 30 seconds every so often. what about X11R7.7 I am having lag issues and freezes.

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: Jerry on February 28, 2015, 03:30:26 AM

What games? Is this via Steam? What is X11R7.7? If you want effective Support, you have to provide as many details as possible when you post wbgs_broadcasting. Thanks.

Title: Re: Latest AMD Drivers?
Post by: wbgs_broadcasting on February 28, 2015, 04:01:49 AM

Yes steam games freeze every 30 seconds and X11R7.7 is latest xorg, Latest x11 I think i just having laggy graphic on minimize and freezing every 30 seconds in game don't know why with steam.

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Up date I went back to open free drivers running ok now thanks for everything.