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AMD drivers corrupting Mint 12 desktop
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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MakoSharkero
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.............
Last edited by bldegle2; 04-24-2012 at 06:12 AM.
I am gettin too old for all this st.ff!
Specs? it runs.................
Tbird quotes:
"I dont care that much for gaming"
"I am done with 3dmark."
AsRock 970 Extreme4,Vishera 8320 @4.6, Vertex 4 256GB SataIII SSD, 2xVelociraptor 600GB 10,000 spinner in raid 0 storage....16g Gskill DDR3 2133 @2292, ATI 6850, back on huge air (quiet)....HP Laptop redone OS (ie, no HP krud ), AMD Phenom II N620, 8gig DDR3 1333 ram, Sanddisk SataII 120GB SSD, Toshiba 500GB 7200 spinner...
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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.
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Mako Shark
Mint isnt the best distro for graphics compatibility anyway.
Not really much you can do apart from trying an older driver or another distro.
Compaq A910em: T2330 dual core 1.6Ghz, X3100 384MB GPU, 160GB sata HDD, 2GB RAM
Gaming rig: Asus Striker II, Coolermaster GX 750w, E4600 @ 2.4Ghz, 2.5GB RAM, Zerotherm FZ 120, 9500GT 1GB
Server: Mac mini running W23k Server - 1.8Ghz dual-core, 1GB RAM, 1x80GB, 2x500GB externals + LTO1 tape backup
An important petition, regarding your human rights:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...r-both-genders
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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.
Last edited by drdoom; 04-24-2012 at 01:43 PM.
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Mako Shark
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.
Compaq A910em: T2330 dual core 1.6Ghz, X3100 384MB GPU, 160GB sata HDD, 2GB RAM
Gaming rig: Asus Striker II, Coolermaster GX 750w, E4600 @ 2.4Ghz, 2.5GB RAM, Zerotherm FZ 120, 9500GT 1GB
Server: Mac mini running W23k Server - 1.8Ghz dual-core, 1GB RAM, 1x80GB, 2x500GB externals + LTO1 tape backup
An important petition, regarding your human rights:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...r-both-genders
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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.
Last edited by drdoom; 04-25-2012 at 01:41 PM.
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Hit a snag. When I connected through the HDMI connector I only get two resolutions and the whole desktop is not visible.
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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
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