So, quite some time ago I made the mistake of buying the ATI Radeon HD 6870 without first checking if it would play nice with my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.
Turned out it didn’t 🙁
But now, there are proprietary Linux drivers released by ATI/AMD
- First, you should update your system (just to be sure).
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade - If you’ve been using older drivers, remove them.
sudo apt-get remove –purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon
- Download the install package from the AMD suppot pages and make it executable
chmod +x ati-driver-installer*.run
- Run the installer as sudo-user
sudo ./ati-driver-installer*.run
- Reboot
Enjoy!
The Linux 2.6.38 kernel carries the ATI Radeon HD 6000 open source support. (just fyi!)
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