Posts Tagged ‘ATI’
SOLVED: Blank or Dark Reddish Video on Ubuntu Karmic with ATI Graphics
I have just recently splashed out on a Dell Studio 17 which comes with ATI HD3650 graphics. I would have been happier if they still did this laptop with Intel graphics which, in my experience, work hassle free out of the box.
I took my hard drive out of my old laptop which had Intel GMA graphics and put it in my shiny new Studio 17. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried playing a video in Totem or VLC. The video was very dark and reddish. I tried installing the proprietry crap fglrx which seems to suck at multi head if the external monitor has a higher resolution than the laptop screen. With this fglrx driver enabled the video completely disappeared and left just a blank black window in Totem. Read the rest of this entry »