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safetycopy

urban legend

From: The Chatsubo

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 1,311

Re: installing amd drivers so I can get my screen's max resolution?

^ Did you try smxi and the older driver, like @el_k suggested? Instructions for using smxi are in the thread I linked a few posts back.

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,643

Re: installing amd drivers so I can get my screen's max resolution?

Sorry for the delayed reply, but is there a way I can just download that driver, or those parts and use them in crunchbang? Really all the other distros are so far behind #! that it's ether #! or Windows to me.

The older drivers will not work with the version of X in #! Waldorf and further. Your two choices in the Linux world at this moment are Ubuntu or the open source driver.

gychang

#! CrunchBanger

From: Phoenix, AZ

Registered: 2009-04-01

Posts: 225

Re: installing amd drivers so I can get my screen's max resolution?

Try:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

And have a look at @el_koraco's excellent The definitive guide to proprietary AMD graphics drivers.

thanks for this, I was able to install my driver.

gychang

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