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Just upgraded my graphics card from a HD6970 to a HD7990. Have tried Ubuntu 13.10, the last LTS and also Kubuntu 13.10 but none will run a display properly. Even when booting from a live USB/DVD I get a corrupted display. Clean installs do not help.

In particular, Ubuntu displays strange behaviour. The launch bar, the dash, and the shutdown options (accessed when pressing the computers power button) all display properly, but everything else is a mash of crazy colours.

Screenshot:

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Any info gratefully appreciated. Hopefully it is hardware that will be supported soon.

Zanna
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Have found out that the display that I was confronted with is typical of any situation where trying to use cross-fire'd AMD cards.

It is necessary to download the propriety drivers from AMD whilst you don't have the crossfire setup, or if you do have the crossfire setup in place, you'll have to drop to tty and wget the drivers.

Even once you start the installation procedure from tty following the graphical interface failing to load, following the recommended steps will not work. Instead of installing via the recommended route (generating a system specific installation package) choose the option for xorg install.

Also, having a different AMD card in place and installing the drivers, then switching to your crossfire setup (swapping the cards) doesn't work either - you'll have to drop to tty, clean out the drivers, reinstall xorg, reboot, and then install proprietary drivers afresh!

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If you like to work with commandlines you could switch to an other tty with

ctrl+alt+F1

then follow the steps on this answer:
AMD Driver update (one from amd.com)

It describes fresh installation of graphic drivers from AMD.

Your card should be supported.

To switch back to graphical terminal use:

ctrl+alt+F7

Latest AMD drivers can be found here
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

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