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Title: AMD graphics
Post by: C0nfused on December 15, 2017, 07:28:48 AM

been a few years and now gaming needs are higher. i have a HD4850 radeon but is there a source of drivers i can use?. i have seen references to "open source" drivers but i fail to see where or how. thanks, confused

Title: Re: AMD graphics
Post by: Moltke on December 15, 2017, 04:47:13 PM

Quote from: C0nfused on December 15, 2017, 07:28:48 AM

been a few years and now gaming needs are higher. i have a HD4850 radeon but is there a source of drivers i can use?. i have seen references to "open source" drivers but i fail to see where or how. thanks, confused

Hi @C0nfused

Are you using LL 3.6? Unfortunately, there are no AMD propietary drivers for Ubuntu 16.04. I have an AMD GPU too, HD6750 and am using Padoka PPA which offers the latest Mesa code. You can read about it here https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-Padoka-May-Ubuntu-16
That article/post has some benchmarks the author performed while using this PPA. I can't tell anything about gaming performance cause I haven't installed any game since the only one I like is Pro Evolution Soccer and I did try with wine but failed everytime, it's supposed to work according to what I've read but guess I'm missing something. :(

Hope this helps! :)

   

Title: Re: AMD graphics
Post by: trinidad on December 15, 2017, 07:25:42 PM

Yeah, your propbably going to have to do this via Deb. 4000 series needs the legacy drivers (fglrx-legacy-driver (8.97.100.7-3~bpo70+1)

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/fglrx-legacy-driver

TC

Title: Re: AMD graphics
Post by: C0nfused on December 18, 2017, 05:46:01 AM

thanks, appreciate the advice