How to Install an ATI Driver in Ubuntu

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Tip 1 - What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Valerie Patterson | permalink

I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/what-is-the-correct-way-to-install-proprietary-ati-catalyst-video-drivers-fglrx ^[1]

Tip 2 - ATI Graphics Driver in Ubuntu 14.04

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Anibal Oliveira | permalink

I am using a Lenovo Ideapad laptop with graphics card configuration as Radeon HD 8570A/8570M on Ubuntu 14.04. It shows me "The System is running in low graphics mode" while booting. So i am following

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/465337/ati-graphics-driver-in-ubuntu-14-04 ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to install Radeon Open Source Driver?

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bart Scholten | permalink

I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots. I uninstalled the proprietary d...

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/159586/how-to-install-radeon-open-source-driver ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to install proprietary ATI/AMD drivers on 14.10?

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Joshua Morrill | permalink

I just upgraded to 14.10 from 14.04, and the built-in driver for my ATI Radeon HD 5450 sorta-kinda works okay because I do get a signal on my monitor, but it lacks any kind of acceleration, making ...

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/544217/how-to-install-proprietary-ati-amd-drivers-on-14-10 ^[4]