I installed The latest AMD drivers for Mint 12 and when I do I get corrupted text on the desktop. It seems to be confined to names of icons and in the OS menu. Uninstalling the drivers fixed the problem. Anyone experience this problem?
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I installed The latest AMD drivers for Mint 12 and when I do I get corrupted text on the desktop. It seems to be confined to names of icons and in the OS menu. Uninstalling the drivers fixed the problem. Anyone experience this problem?
somethings up with AMD/ATI drivers right now, well, not particulary the drivers but something in the driver suite.
I was getting blue screens about once a day, mostly during a streaming event, what I did to cure it was UNINSTALL the complete driver suite, even sweep the registry just to be sure, then selectively installed the chipset, usb, SB(AHCI), and drivers only....no CCC...
No more blue screens....it doesn't exhibit this behavior with a spinner as the boot drive, as soon as I switch to my SSD, wham bam kripes....this wouldn't be the first time that CCC has been the culprit....
Apparently it is not just confined to SSD glitches from what I am reading lately...
I have verified this, I can induce the blue screen as soon as the newer CCC gets involved...
Just sayin'...
laterrzzzz.............
I have not noticed any issues with WinXP/12.1 drivers. Win7/12.1 seems okay but I have not done any gaming with that combo. The issue is with my Linux Install.
Mint isnt the best distro for graphics compatibility anyway.
Not really much you can do apart from trying an older driver or another distro.
What's the down side of not installing them? I don't plan on doing any gaming on Mint. The most I would do is play video. It's not a huge deal I haven't really gotten to far into it so I can switch to Ubuntu if necessary though I would rather not at this point.
So long as you're not gaming, it should be OK just using the generic one. You might get a limited resolution but so long as that doesnt bother you.
All the usual resolutions seem to be there and work ok. Mint also seems to have a built in scaler. It fits the resolution nicely to my monitor.
Hit a snag. When I connected through the HDMI connector I only get two resolutions and the whole desktop is not visible.
In case anyone has similar issues this fixed the desktop resolution issues. I don't have CCC installed as far as I can tell but I don't think I need it.
http://www.techlw.com/2012/04/instal...rivers-on.html