Ubuntu How To

Yes, you can go to hardware center and just pick the drivers ubuntu finds for you. I just tend to like manually installing Catalyst from ati. To do so, go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and download the drivers for your graphic card. Then save it, go to the folder in terminal and type:

sudo sh ati<tab>

<tab> meaning press the tab key to autocomplete the file name since I am not sure which version you got. 🙂 Now you should have the latest version of Catalyst and drivers running on your system. Got to love ATI for Ubuntu. Worked perfectly for my radeon hd 4870.

Now if you want to configure it, open terminal window and type:

aticonfig

Good luck.

So, just an update to previous post regarding ubuntu screen flickering, I was not able to completely get rid of flickering after 5 hours of trying. I tried a dozen of solutions after searching all over Ubuntu forums and none of them resolved it for me. I gave up.

In the end I just plugged in my ati radeon hd 4870 and it worked like a charm from start. I ended up updating the drivers manually from ATI and it works even better now.