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I would like to install the driver for my Radeon graphics card on Ubuntu 16.04. Is it available? If it is, how do I install it?

I tried lspci -nn | grep and got the following:

VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel
Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
 Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller
[0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD
 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M] [1002:6741] (rev ff)
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  • There is no need to install any driver. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 06:11
  • @Pilot6 why so ? – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 13:50
  • @Zacharee1 , am I to understand there is no solution at all ? – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 13:51
  • Not really on 16.04. 14.04 will be fine. – TheWanderer Sep 01 '16 at 13:52
  • @user227495 What "solution" are you asking for? Solution of what problem? The open source driver is installed by default. And you did not mention any problems with it. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 13:57
  • @Pilot6 , please check the link below ( in answer ). I guess " SUMO/SUMO2 " is my card and it has some drivers for 16.04. But I do not know how to install it. Also, I cannot see anything about my graphics card in " About this computer ". – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 13:58
  • Is that the only problem that you do not see information about your card? Install `mesa-utils` and you will see it. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 14:00
  • @Pilot6 , I did try that command. But still no indication of any graphics card present. – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 14:01
  • @Pilot6, I retried the command and it said " mesa-utils is already the newest version (8.3.0-1). " – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 14:03
  • So what is the real problem? I see that you have hybrid Intel+AMD graphics. I do not see any problem that can be solved. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 14:05
  • @Pilot6 , are you trying to say that the graphics card driver is already installed ? – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 14:06
  • Yes, that is what I am trying to say. Ubuntu is not Windows. Installing 3rd party drivers is an exception, not a rule. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 14:07
  • @Pilot6 , I see. The reason why I asked this question is that my PC kind of hangs when the memory reaches 4GB. I thought that can be solved if graphics card comes to play. – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 14:14
  • If you have some real problem, it makes sense to describe it in a new question. – Pilot6 Sep 01 '16 at 14:15
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/44798/discussion-between-user227495-and-pilot6). – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 14:19

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Check out this

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

This already exists.

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  • @yolo7398 , I tried " sudo apt-get install mesa-utils " command. But under " About this computer ", there is no graphics card. Thanks. – user227495 Sep 01 '16 at 13:57