So, after some digging I found the solution to make everything work. Another thing is that using the monitor in 1440p seems to be a bit more blurry than with Ubuntu 18.04 with the amdgpu-pro drivers.ĭon’t worry, we are coming to a happy ending soon ?
Baka loader please reinstall drivers#
Also, the official AMD drivers are not yet available, so I’m stuck with the open source radeon driver shipped with the distro, which tends to freeze my computer when watching youtube videos. After a quick reinstall, I sadly had to conclude that the flickering text problem still persists. This way there was no flickering, the content was sized okayish, but the image was just not as crisp as on native 4K.įast forward about 7 months and Ubuntu 20.04 arrives. This rendered the user experience totally unacceptable, so after weeks of experimenting I had to settle to using the 4K monitor on 1440p resolution. I tried a bunch of Ubuntu versions and even other distributions, but when desktop scaling was even available, I always had some flickering text when typing something as if the window manager tried to redraw the windows after each keystroke. This works out of the box on Windows 10, but was always problematic on Linux. The sensible thing to do is to turn desktop scaling to 125% or 150% to stay on the native resolution and still enjoy crisp and appropriately sized text. Unfortunately my eyes are getting a bit old, so using Windows or Linux in native 4K resolution is out of the question. I also have a LG 32UK550 4K UHD VA FreeSync HDR LED Monitor and do want to enjoy the extra crisp resolution. I’ll probably stick with it for a few more years. I have an ASUS Radeon R9 390X STRIX OC 8GB GDDR5 (STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING) video card which is getting quite old in 2020 but still is quite perfect for my huge gaming backlog.