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- Open System Settings. Click on Software & Updates. Click on the additional drivers tab. You should then be able to select another graphics card driver and click Apply Changes.
- This tutorial covers how to easily install proprietary drivers for your Nvidia or ATI video card using envy. These are the drivers that are listed in the download section of the ATI and NVIDIA Websites. Advantage to installing these drivers over the nvidia-glx or xorg-driver-fglrx are that you get a nice GUI control panel and advanced features.
In this article, I will show you how I manage to install the latest AMD Radeon Driver for my AMD RX 570 graphic card on Ubuntu 20.04. I want to run the DaVinci Resolve 16.2 on my Ubuntu 20.04, so I will need to have this Radeon driver on my Ubuntu 20.04. So basically, installing the Radeon driver on Ubuntu is very easy. AMD provides the necessary files specially for Ubuntu based system.
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Steps to Install AMD Radeon Driver on Ubuntu 20.04
Step 1. Download the driver
First,install Envyng which is a simple GUI tool that can be used to install/uninstall Video driver for your ubuntu. Just use one command in terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal): sudo apt-get install envyng-core envyng-qt This will properly installed envyng with both GUI mode and text mode. Don’t worry, Ubuntu (for the most part) takes care of your video driver needs on 17.10. So sit tight, and wait for the new version to come out. When it is out, follow the instructions above to install it. Using The Video Driver Update Tool. When the Video Driver Update Tool is on your PC, launch it to get everything going.
Navigate to AMD Support website and pick the correct driver for your graphic card.
Next, choose the Ubuntu version from the operating system list.
Click Download and wait until the download process completes. Upon completion, you will have a compressed file: amdgpu-pro-20.20-1098277-ubuntu-20.04.tar.xz. The file name will be different depends on your graphic card and driver version.
Step 2. Install the Driver
Right-click the file and choose Extract Here. It will produce a new folder called something like : amdgpu-pro-20.20-1098277-ubuntu-20.04. Now open the folder and then right-click and choose Open in Terminal. It will open Terminal in this folder.
Now, we need to make the amdgpu-install executable
Next, run the installer with this command
Wait until the installation process is complete.
UPDATE: If you try upgrading after this tutorial, it will cause the drivers to fail. This seems to be an issue with 64bit operating systems, and the ATI drivers. If you want a quick setup, use Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.
If you really want 64bit, Install 10.04 64bit, then install using the CD’s until you reach the latest. If you hit any black screens, reboot and tap Shift until the Grub menu appears. Then enter recovery mode and do the upgrade using this.
For a quick media centre solution, use OpenElec and install to the HDD, which works perfectly! I recommend the OpenElec + Pulse Package.
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I recently bought and reviewed the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Nettop PC. It comes as standard with a powerful ATI Radeon HD graphics card (the 6450 to be exact). This is great if you are a Windows user, because AMD produce all the Windows drivers you could possibly want.
However, I’m not. Windows in my opinion shouldn’t be let anywhere near my movie collections. I’m a Ubuntu with XBMC man, but this causes a few problems for this chip.
Below I will explain how I managed to get the 6450 working with my Q180. I’m currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86_64 installed from the ISO downloaded from the Ubuntu website. I’ve then used the Pendrive Linux tool to create a USB key with the Ubuntu ISO in a bootable format. The Q180 can then boot off of this and install Ubuntu. Make sure you use the USB 2.0 ports for booting though. The USB 3.0 ports on the front I’ve not managed to boot from, and Ubuntu throws a filesystem issue if you attempt to boot the Live CD from them.
Installing Ubuntu isn’t covered in this tutorial, so I’ll assume you’ve already done a base install of this. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, and you don’t need any extras pre-installed. All I ask is you have access to the internet and know how to bring up a terminal session.
NOTE:
I will be using some of the tools provided by AMD/ATI. While they do provide drivers for Linux, many users have reported that these do not work correctly on Ubuntu. It is also worth noting that these tools and drivers are NOT open source. They are proprietary software which has been released under it’s own license. You need to check that you are lawfully allowed to use this software in your country. By doing so, you accept the terms and conditions put in place by AMD.
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Lets get going…
First off, we need to download some drivers from AMD. We don’t need to install these just yet, but because they are big and bulky (103mb) we should really kick them off first.
At the time of writing this tutorial the following version is the latest:
AMD Catalyst™ 12.3 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver
Version: 12.3
File Size: 103 MB
Release Date: 28 March 2012
Download Link:AMD Support Website
After starting the download, we need to remove any drivers and files left from any previous installs. (This bit is also helpful if you mess up!)
If these happen to error or fail, don’t worry too much. It most likely means that the product isn’t installed.
Next we need to install some repositories in order to correct errors with ATI’s install. This repository is run by some hardcore Ubuntu veterans. It’s a very active PPA, and is updated regularly.
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Make sure all the updates install and reboot as required.
After that we need to jump back over to the file you’ve downloaded from AMD/ATI. You need to make this file executable. Bring up the properties, and navigate to the ‘Permissions’ tab. Then tick the ‘Allow Executing File As A Program…’.
Now that we can run it, we need to open up a terminal session.
Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
We need to change to the place you saved the file (I chose the Desktop)
Now we can attempt to execute the file (as root!):
You will notice that this creates another temp folder on the desktop, and launches a installer window. (Sometimes the installer window takes a while, so keep your eye on the terminal for progress!)
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Make sure you select the option ‘Install Driver X.XXX on X.Org X.X or Later…’
After completing the installation, you need to create a new X.Org config file:
Then you need to reboot!
If all is well, the drivers should be installed and the system will boot without issue.
You can check the driver status in the Restricted Drivers Manager (System > Administrator > Proprietary Hardware Drivers’).
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Feel free to post comments if you have any suggestions or problems.