{"id":2212,"date":"2013-11-12T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2014-10-02T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:23:04","slug":"easily-install-amd-catalyst-drivers-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/easily-install-amd-catalyst-drivers-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to easily install or update AMD Catalyst drivers in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AMD<\/a><\/p>\n

This tutorial shows how to easily install or update your AMD Catalyst Proprietary Drivers to the latest in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04. <\/p>\n

A developer builds a graphical installer called “Ubuntu AMD Catalyst Driver install<\/b>“. It provides a reliable consistent way to update AMD \/ ATI graphics drivers on Ubuntu machines.<\/p>\n

With this app, we can follow the steps below to install or update AMD Catalyst drivers:<\/p>\n

1. Download the app from the links at the end of this tutorial.<\/p>\n

Then install it via:<\/p>\n

sudo dpkg -i ~\/Downloads\/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install_*.deb; sudo apt-get -f install<\/pre>\n
2. Open the app from Unity Dash, it will automatically detect your system hardware configuration and driver compatibility.<\/p>\n
\"check<\/a><\/p>\n
3. You’ll be shown a display similar to the one below indicating full support, legacy support or not support.<\/p>\n
\"AMD<\/a><\/p>\n
4. Select the latest Stable, Legacy or Beta driver to install:<\/p>\n
\"Choose<\/a><\/p>\n
5. It automatically download the driver you selected. When done, click Next button.<\/p>\n
\"Download<\/a><\/p>\n
6. Build Ubuntu DEB installation packages.<\/p>\n
\"Build<\/a><\/p>\n
7. It will prompt you to remove the old driver before installing the new one:<\/p>\n
\"Remove<\/a><\/p>\n
8. Install the new driver from the built DEB packages and enable the driver when done.<\/p>\n
\"install<\/a><\/p>\n
Finally reboot.<\/p>\n
Via: developer’s site<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This tutorial shows how to easily install or update your AMD Catalyst Proprietary Drivers to the latest in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04. A developer builds a graphical installer called “Ubuntu AMD Catalyst Driver install“. It provides a reliable consistent way to update AMD \/ ATI graphics drivers on Ubuntu machines. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[797,796],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-amd-catalyst-driver","tag-amd-catalyst-installer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}