help with finding graphics driver

**VideoAddicted** · February 7th, 2012

I recently purchased the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series GPU for my system, and am not sure how to get the driver onto my Ubuntu partition, nor am I sure where to acquire an Ubuntu version of this driver.

Any help with would be greatly appreciated.

**Mark Phelps** · February 8th, 2012

If you're seeing a desktop, and you probably would say if you were NOT, then you already HAVE video drivers installed.

Unless you are doing 3D Gaming, then you don't need to mess around with installing restricted video drivers.

**VideoAddicted** · February 12th, 2012

All I'm getting is a full screen terminal window

**jcolyn** · February 12th, 2012

First off uninstall the driver you installed through extra drivers if you installed one here. Reboot..............

Then go here http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and fill in the boxes. It will then show the driver available for your card. Download it to an empty folder. Right-click the driver and choose open a terminal. Enter

Code:

sudo sh ./name of driver.run

In place of name of driver enter the full name of the driver you downloaded. Follow on screen info. Choose automatic install when asked. Once done reboot and the latest driver will now be working..

**Yellow Pasque** · February 12th, 2012

It is better to build packages than run the install sscript directly (and make sure the dependencies are installed).
See: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

**VideoAddicted** · February 12th, 2012

@jcolyn The link that you gave me's button is non-responsive on my computer, do you know another way to find the driver

Also the page for installing drivers is for Oneiric and my system is using Maverick, do you know if the information on that page will apply?