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| 1459488 | 2019-03-25 00:55:00 | My brother has an HD5850 card. It was fine until today, it's whining there is an issue, we can get it to boot in "safe mode" sort of thing, but it's not using the driver and therefore doesn't show in driver manager. It's just the standard Linux Mint driver anyway. How do we manually remove it so it can redo the thing? Via terminal. Tried downloading a new one and it doesn't like any of the choices on AMDs site. All I found was some horribly complicated thing I can't even understand, must be a simple remove process. As far as I can tell it doesn't like his resolution, but I can't change it cause I can't even load it with it running, only get the O/S up in recovery... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1459489 | 2019-03-25 06:12:00 | Last post in the following looks like it might work for AMD drivers, its for Mint 12, so who knows. forums.linuxmint.com | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1459490 | 2019-03-25 10:44:00 | Setting resolution manually should resolve the problem. You should start with the displays utility. If that doesn't work try installing arandr christian.amsuess.com Which you can do with the terminal command sudo apt-get install arandr Hopefully one or other will work for you. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1459491 | 2019-03-25 19:10:00 | Thanks, got told the arandr thing by someone else yesterday. And we fixed it, tried the mint forums and tried several variations of that above thing from Wainui....none worked. The last I did, was failing, reboot came back to a black screen again, and I unplugged the screen from GPU, plugged it back on and it suddenly burst into life and resumed.... Co-incidence? I suspect so. What caused it in the first place I don't know, brother said he hadn't changed or updated anything. Weird... Anyway thanks for that, it's easy when you know the commands...we're a bit slow learning as I'm not fixing stuff these days, and when it works, it just works....not good for your learning curve really. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1459492 | 2019-03-26 09:16:00 | Update: IT did it again. This time I did nothing except unplug the cable and plug in a HDMI one. And it was happy. Weirdly xrandr shows 3 choices, VGA, Displayport and HDMI, all show disconnected. What? Not sure if it's the DVI cable or not yet.....what do you think? |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1459493 | 2019-03-26 10:09:00 | Maybe check the Xorg log file for clues. It will be either /var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log depending if mint has swapped to rootless X or not. FWIW, here is the Debian wiki page for general ATI/AMD graphics, which may not be directly aplicable, but has some general troubleshooting info. AFAIK mint should have the non-free firmware included already (Debian doesn’t) but maybe worth checking. wiki.debian.org |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1459494 | 2019-03-30 09:01:00 | My brother has an HD5850 card. It was fine until today, it's whining there is an issue, we can get it to boot in "safe mode" sort of thing, but it's not using the driver and therefore doesn't show in driver manager. It's just the standard Linux Mint driver anyway. How do we manually remove it so it can redo the thing? Via terminal. Tried downloading a new one and it doesn't like any of the choices on AMDs site. All I found was some horribly complicated thing I can't even understand, must be a simple remove process. As far as I can tell it doesn't like his resolution, but I can't change it cause I can't even load it with it running, only get the O/S up in recovery... Are you still in the same situation? |
eviecharlton (17668) | ||
| 1459495 | 2019-03-30 19:57:00 | Swapped GPUs back. In the process of buying a better PSU and a new GPU. The one I put in can't run well on the existing PSU. And he needs a higher end GPU |
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