Radeon 7670m driver

[igorbash]

I have linux mint 14.1 64bit with cinnamon 1.6 and when i install the propieatary amd driver from the additional drivers and reboot the system it shows the cinnamon desktop in different way, how can i fix it?
also the fans are very noisy when i use linux mint but in windows the are quiter, i think the lack of graphic driver causes this,
please help me to find a soulution for this problem

[xenopeek]

Please don't crosspost. I've deleted your other topic.

I'm not sure, but I think the AMD proprietary drivers may have problems with running Cinnamon. Could you share the output of the following command run from the terminal? It may be needed to help you. You can copy text to/from the terminal, see Its edit menu.

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inxi -Gx

[igorbash]

Graphics: Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A


also when i try to run amd catalyst control centrel it says:
Initialization error:
There was a problem initializing Catalyst Control Center Linux edition. It could be caused by the following.
No AMD graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly.
Please install the AMD driver appropriate for you AMD hardware, or configure using aticonfig

[xenopeek]

Ah, you have two graphics card--one from Intel and one from AMD. Possibly the following two topics will be helpful:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=119819
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=114068#p635844

I'm no expert on these dual graphic problems (frankly, scares the bejeebers out of me) so I hope somebody else can pitch in on this also.

[igorbash]

I tried the first one but now when i reboot to linux it doesnt even asks me my username and password and shows me some messege about x-server and i think i need to reinstall linux mint now, what should i do?

[xenopeek]

Try booting with the boot parameter "nomodeset xforcevesa" (add them without the quotes). You can add the boot parameter by in the GRUB menu (hold down shift during boot to get it to show), and press the 'e' key to edit. Then add the needed parameters on the line that starts with "linux". If that helps you log in successfully, you may be able to repair this issue from there. But like I wrote, I'm out of my depth there

[igorbash]

okay but i can just format and reinstall the linux its no problem, but i need a solution for the driver problem if someone could help me i would be thankful

[igorbash]

i installed the open source driver and it shows cinamon normaly but still the computer is really noisy what can i do about it?

[igorbash]

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[vicemore]

hi

i had the almost the same issue with the fan too with a 4870

the only sollution that worked for me was to modify the fan profiles of the graphic card bios.

baiscaly i saved into my pc the bios of my 4870 using gpu-z. ( to edit it and save it for backup)
i used rbe editor to cheange the fan profiles.
i used atiwinflash to flash my bios but i don\t recommend that. u can make a bootable disk in dos.

all under windows... idk if this will help you and sorry for my english
edit: not sure if it will even work on laptop video card, it is just a suggestion

[igorbash]

okay, it sound difficult and dangerous, but thanks anyway , anyone has other solution?

[vicemore]

isn't that dificult
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQ7xHNkE5c
i don't recomend flashing from windows, that\s all.

[igorbash]

Ok i will try it soon, but maybe there is another solution?

[igorbash]

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[igorbash]

anyone found a soulution?