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Beli3ver

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Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 19

ATI Radeon HD7850 Driver

Hi,

I wan to know what is the best way to install the driver for my graphic card?

1) Take the driver from: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/d … nux+x86_64
2) Take this one: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst/

Could you give me a tipp?
Must I uninstall the xf86-video-amdgpu driver first + restart + then install one of the top driver?

Thanks

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,354

Re: ATI Radeon HD7850 Driver

1) Take the driver from: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/d … nux+x86_64

On Arch Linux, always install using pacman.

You can choose 2 drivers for your card, opensource or proprietary. Check radeon and catalyst wiki pages.

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kvonlinee

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Registered: 2015-02-04

Posts: 27

Re: ATI Radeon HD7850 Driver

I have few radeon 7950, I used opensource driver, xf86-video-ati, together with compton produce a no tearing screen. I tried to install amd radeon driver but no success. On xfce enviroment.
I have nvidia GTX-660ti, got the nvdidia driver work, compton also. But screen is tearing, I can't fix it.