Restart and your are good to go, also you can install Ccsm or Compiz config settings manager from the Ubuntu Software Center to make what TK Kocheran says, that makes a huge difference If later on you want to uninstall type this Sudo sh aticonfig -uninstall When the installatuion is complete type Sudo aticonfig -initial -f The idea is to get something like this Sudo sh 'path/to/your/n' I've been using ubuntu as my main OS for some years with AMD Radeon, what I can tell you is that the open source drivers work pretty well but I still prefere the Propietary ones.įor installing the propietary drivers you have to make sure to uninstall and completely remove the open source ones (from system configurarion -> aditional drivers, uncheck them if active and then restart)Īnd just open the terminal and type Sudo shĭrag the downloaded (*.run) file and press enter (dragging a file to the terminal makes it easier to get the path of the file instead of type it manually) PS: I am using the Ubuntu 11.04/X64 whereas the one on my friend's laptop is the 32 bit version. I would like to know if there is anything else that I can try, because I really like Ubuntu and would like to have to login to windows only when I absolutely have to. 1080p videos play just fine without the need for any proprietary drivers. My friend says that she hasn't had to login to Windows 7 once in the last three weeks. I also installed 11.04 on my friends laptop ( A dual core with Intel HD graphics and 2GB RAM), and it works like a dream. I downloaded the proprietary drivers but it seemed like they dragged down the performance even more. This is huge deal breaker for me, since I use my PC mostly for watching movies. Even standard definition videos are unwatchably choppy. The issue is that the video performance is absolutely horrible. (I was using the proprietary drivers)īut a month back I bought a new one (AMD X4 955BE/ 8 GB/ Radeon HD4250) and dual booted Win 7/ Ubuntu 11.04. It would occasionally freeze but other than that it was all good. I started with 10.10 on my old PC with an nVidia 7300GS graphics card. I saw my friend's PC running Ubuntu and tried it out of curiosity.

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