

If you decide you would still like to use the proprietary driver, you will need to download and install it.

If performance is still not up to standards after all of the above, you can manually install the closed source driver as a last resort. If it will work without it, this might improve performance.įinally, once you are logged into the GUI, go to Settings > Devices > Displays and make sure the resolution is properly set. It does? Good! Now reboot once again and see if you can remove the nomodeset boot option. Now reboot the computer and make sure it still works. Then to test the VDPAU driver with mpv use: mpv -hwdec=vdpau yourvideofile Sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 ubuntu-session xserver-xorg-video-amdgpuįinally, you can enable accelerated video: sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers Then reconfigure your packages to be safe: sudo apt install -reinstall xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Now, add the AMD updates PPA and update: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers If you have done other mucking around, or added the PPA for the NVIDIA drivers (sorry about that) you can clean up with the following: sudo apt-add-repository -r ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa & \ Using the built in driver is usually sufficient for radeon cards. How do I set 'nomodeset' after I've already installed Ubuntu? You may just need to use the common nomodeset fix: You should be able to use the open source drivers that come with your system. is there any solution available for installing AMD graphic drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 ? It was very easy on windows, I would switch back to windows, But just wanted to ask here for last time. So I have a hybrid graphic cards or something, I tried this installation guide, but didn't work (even for the users in comment section), Right now Linux only works in recovery mode, in normal mode it shows a blank purple screen and nothing works, after searching on internet I found there could be something wrong with my graphic drivers, I have tried many things to install AMD graphic drivers on my laptop, But nothing seems to work, I ran this command on my laptop lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'Īnd the results are 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)Ġ1:00.0 Display controller : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. I had always been a Windows user, But yesterday I downloaded and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this page, But I can't find a way to install AMD graphic drivers,
