If the report shows two different hardware devices, then you probably have a 'hybrid graphics' system, with an iGP (integrated graphics processor inside the CPU) and a dedicated GPU. It should report something like this for your graphics card and/or APU: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
The Radeon driver is already pre-installed in Ubuntu.įirst, check your graphic card name and chipset: sudo update-pciids #optional command, requires internet Furthermore the Radeon driver supports some older chipsets that fglrx does not. For the most recent releases of Ubuntu (and its flavours) this driver is usually as fast as the closed-source, proprietary fglrx driver (called AMD Catalyst) from AMD Inc. This driver provides 2D and 3D acceleration in your video hardware. This guide shows you how to use the open source Radeon driver for some ATI/AMD graphics cards and APUs, which is part of the xserver-xorg-video-ati package. Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Linux kernel 3.13.0), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later.Supported, but hardware is too old for Unity.
