Installing Oibaf's Drivers for AMD R5 M430 on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

So I have the AMD R5 M430 video card, but there is no official driver so I wanted to seek some open source drivers, and I found this Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04/16.10 and AMD graphics and after all I read Oibaf's driver (https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers) fits good, but I don't know how to install it.

I want a good driver for this video card beacuse I want to use it for gaming and other stuff, I mean I want to use it and ditch the Intel video card beacuse I hate it and I don't want to use it.

Solution

With your instructions you linked, they seem kind of crazy, but really they are very easy to install. From a terminal window, run the following lines:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

It should download automatically and install and set up the driver for you.

Hope this helps!

Comments

[sticsk]

So I did good in the first time, how can I check if I use the AMD GPU? And stop using the intel

[Terrance]

@sticsk sudo lshw -c video should show you the one that is in use.

[Terrance]

@sticsk Or you can run lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'

[Terrance]

@sticsk Also, look here for the hybrid graphics: help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics

[sticsk]

Thanks, I'll let you know if something's going wrong! I am installing it right now

[sticsk]

so I have this GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash XXX.modeset=1" Should I write radeon instead of XXX?

[Terrance]

@sticsk Yes it should be radeon instead of XXX.

[sticsk]

When I try to connect to my dedicated video card it says Permission Denied, even with sudo why? sudo echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch bash: /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch: Permission denied

[Terrance]

@sticsk Unfortunately, I only know how to install the radeon drivers and use them. My laptop that I did it on was successful, but mine doesn't have Intel on it as a secondary or primary card, or I would know exactly how to do that.

[sticsk]

Well, alright, I gotta ask another question then, thanks for help!

[Terrance]

@sticsk Sorry for a late response back, but I looked at our conversation here and when you were trying to echo OFF to the file the sudo is not carried over to the > part of it. So the command should be echo OFF | sudo tee /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch or sudo bash -c 'echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch'