Hello, I bought a laptop with AMD Radeon HD 7640G , I’m looking for better driver in ubuntu because when I’m watching a movie I get weird vertical line in the first 1/3 of the movie ? Or how can I fix my problem ?
Thanks 
Which driver are you currently using ?
What’s the output from:
sudo lshw -C display
Which Linux distro/version/architecture ?
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:53 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:f0400000-f043ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series]
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:54 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0300000-f031ffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0320000-f033ffff
Running ubuntu 12.04 64
Sorry for the Edit I didn’t wait for the full script to appear
How did you install your current drivers ?
What’s listed in “Additional Drivers” ?
When you say you get grey vertical lines … in what ? (vlc, mplayer, flash/firefox)
Can you also post the output from:
dpkg -l | grep fglrx
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Yes I install them from additional driver
ii fglrx 2:8.960-0ubuntu1.1 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.960-0ubuntu1.1 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators
rc fglrx-updates 2:8.960-0ubuntu1.1 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
Well I suppose you could try the latest drivers from AMD/ATI which are Catalyst 12.10 … but support for your hybrid card was supposed to have been added in 12.6, and the drivers you have from the repos are 12.8 … so I’m not sure if there’s much point.
You didn’t answer what application is giving you the virtical grey lines problem ? … and what you’re playing (avi, mpg, etc.)
Latest Catalyst 12.10 can be acquired here:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
.Avi but it does the same with all formatv and I’ve try all the media player, it’s almost like part of the screen get delay witch create a line
Have you tried messing around in the Catalyst control centre ? … is there a setting for turning off vertical sync ?
Have you tried the latest Catalyst 12.10 drivers ? … you never know.
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Can you help me upgrade the driver to 12.10 ? I’ve search the web all week and didn’t find anything to help me .
See here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
But I’m not yet convinced you need to install the 12.10 drivers … have you tried any settings in the Catalyst Control Centre ?
Try adding the 4 packages required for video hardware acceleration, and see if that thelps:
sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 libva-egl1 vainfo
(a reboot may be required at this point)
Then post the output from:
sudo vainfo
Also post the contents of:
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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OK, that xorg.conf is missing a lot of sections … If I were you I’d follow the instructions in section 2.1 here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI#Installing_via_the_command_line
to uninstall,reboot, install, configure, reboot, and test the drivers.
Any questions … feel free to ask before you attempt this.
The important part (after reinstalling the drivers) is to run:
sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
or:
sudo amdconfig --adapter=all --initial
BEFORE rebooting … which should generate a FULL working xorg.conf
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