Installation and troubleshooting of AMD graphics driver on Ubuntu

The AMD graphics card driver on Linux is not as friendly as it is on Windows, but it is always updated by supporters from the 2000 series. Go to the AMD official website to download a Linux-based graphics card driver (note that it is 32/64 bits). If you used to set or attach a video card driver to the system, first go there and unmount the original driver, because the driver version is old. Taking MySQL 11.10 as an example, the driver of AMD11.8 is installed and will not be updated. As of my blog post, AMD has released 12.

The AMD graphics card driver on Linux is not as friendly as it is on Windows, but it is always updated by supporters from the 2000 series. Go to the AMD official website to download a Linux-based graphics card driver (note that it is 32/64 bits). If you used to set or attach a video card driver to the system, first go there and unmount the original driver, because the driver version is old. Take version 11.10 as an example. The above is installed with the AMD11.8 driver and will not be updated any more. As of my blog post, AMD has released the 12.1 driver.

After downloading the driver, use the terminal to enter the folder with the driver. Enter ls to find the driver run file. Enter

Sudo./amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run

And then start the installation. The installation process is very simple. The installation is completed in a few steps. There are no complex options for Windows. Remember to restart after the installation is complete.

Some people find that their kernel may be black screen after it is upgraded. This is a bug in this driver. www.linuxidc.com requires you to uninstall the driver and then install it to solve the problem. First, select the second item (recovery mode) at startup, and then select the first item to continue to enter the system. Then, you can access the system without a black screen. When you come in, uninstall the driver, open the terminal, and enter

Cd/usr/share/ati/

Sudo./amd-uninstall.sh -- force

Wait for a while

Restore of system environment completed

It indicates that the system is uninstalled and then restarted. This time the screen will not be black, and the installation method will be used to install the system again and then restart the system. You can use it.

AMD graphics card drivers have many bugs in Linux. For example, if you cannot directly install the driver after downloading the update, You have to uninstall the old driver and then install the new driver as just done. Restart the agent once after uninstallation. Restart the agent once after installation.