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I just installed Oibaf's graphics driver, on my laptop, and also Lutris (with Wine and all that) beacuse I want to play games like Diablo 3.

Everything worked fine, I also installed vulkan, and Wine + Gallium Nine The output of lshw -c video is :

  *-display                 
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: HD Graphics 5500
   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 2
   bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
   version: 09
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
   resources: irq:45 memory:d3000000-d3ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:7000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
 *-display
   description: Display controller
   product: Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430]
   vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@0000:0d:00.0
   version: 83
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
   resources: irq:46 memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:d5000000-d503ffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:d5040000-d505ffff

My video card is AMD R5 M430, and the laptop is HP 250 G5

Also here is the output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|Display|3D'

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company HD Graphics 5500
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
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0d:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430 / R7 M520] (rev 83)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430 / R7 M520]
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
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I have been plowing the internet for days over this issue. Had similar setup and problems. I chanced upon here about using DRI_PRIME=1 before any commands to use your dedicated GPU. So I tried

export $DRI_PRIME=1

and this worked. So I added a line it in /etc/environment, DRI_PRIME=1 , rebooted and now System Details shows my AMD card as default.

Caveat: I think this disables the Integrated Graphics and changes your system to just make use your dedicated GPU only

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  • Damn man I actually forgot about this question, idk if this will help someone, if it does let me know to mark it as solved. I switched Ubuntu for months ahahahah – sticsk Jul 12 '19 at 08:50
  • Hahahaha I almost gave up to change Ubuntu version too – roarnald Jul 12 '19 at 09:00
  • It was good when I started but now I improved and I switched to another distro – sticsk Jul 12 '19 at 09:00
  • DRI_PRIME=1 steam seems to be enough – PvdL Feb 25 '20 at 21:16
  • I added /etc/environment.d/99-use-amdgpu-by-default with contents DRI_PRIME=1 and everything switched to AMD GPU. Unfortunately, this Dell laptop contais AMD Radeon Pro WX3100 GPU in addition to Intel UHD Graphics 620 integrated graphics and it turns out that the Intel integrated graphics has higher performance on this system! – Mikko Rantalainen May 11 '23 at 10:26
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You can find many answers to your question here in Ask Ubuntu:

You should review all of these links.

Additionally you will find many helpful links from other sources:

All the links are too long to summarize in this answer.

Rather than using lspci -nn | grep VGA which will only show your Intel GPU and not your AMD GPU you should try an expanded search using something like this:

$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|Display|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)
    DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
    Subsystem: Dell Skylake Integrated Graphics
    Kernel driver in use: i915
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01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Dell GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_384_drm, nvidia_384
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    The one from August 2018 is mine... and I already reviewed the first and the 3rd one and they aren't working. Switcheroo isn't working either it won't change to the discreet, I made it work it on 16.04 but it still shows that I'm using the Intel one from Settings for example. And AMDGPU driver isn't available for my AMD R5 M430, that's why I installed Oibaf's driver. I'll check the Prime one though – sticsk Aug 26 '18 at 16:22
  • @sticsk Sorry I didn't pick up on the fact you were one of the authors in the links. You've obviously been doing your homework and trying all the common solutions. Let me know if this answer is unhelpful to you or others and I will delete it. Thank you. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 26 '18 at 16:26
  • I updated the lspci command ; EDIT : I will also check the PRIME from Arch and let you know if something's going on. – sticsk Aug 26 '18 at 16:31
  • The edit to lspci makes it more informative. I just found this you might be interested in: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-amd-radeon-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 26 '18 at 16:38
  • Yep that guide is what I followed into installing Oibaf's driver – sticsk Aug 26 '18 at 16:39
  • I was wondering if that's where you got it from. I just found a bug report based on your new lspci edit that says radeon driver must be blacklisted to use amdgpu driver: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1696231 – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 26 '18 at 16:41
  • So you're saying that I have to blacklist amdgpu from kernel modules to make it work? How am I doing this? – sticsk Aug 26 '18 at 16:50
  • The bug report says radeon has to be blacklisted to make amdgpu work. I cannot speak for what needs to be done. Only pointing out what others are saying. The bug report also says how to blacklist a module. It's fairly straight forward but requires a reboot. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 26 '18 at 16:51
  • I undertsand, I will try PRIME from ArchWiki, should I installed the drivers Wiki recommends or let the Oibaf's one? – sticsk Aug 26 '18 at 16:54
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    I would use Olbaf's as a last resort because that is what we call "Bleeding Edge" technology. I try to stick to the mainstream technology as much as possible. Another piece of advice when dealing with multiple drivers you have to be extract thorough in ensuring the previous one is fully removed before installing a new one. This is a common problem in the nVidia graphics world in Linux. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 26 '18 at 16:57
  • Sorry but I tried the PRIME thing, but I just don't understand how to install the amdgpu package from arch :/ – sticsk Aug 27 '18 at 08:30
  • According to a Diablo 3 posting the problem may lie in Wine itself: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/20761986786 – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 27 '18 at 10:46
  • You know, I just installed Ubuntu on my PC too (Ryzen 5 1500X and GTX960) and Diablo was working flawlessly! ; EDIT : I was asking the same thing, is it Wine or my hardware? And I tested it on my PC and it was working just as good as on Windows – sticsk Aug 27 '18 at 10:51
  • @sticsk If you've explored all the AMD graphics drivers and there is no solution yet, the last link I commented on Diablo 3 says installing a different Wine version was a solution. Could that be why it's working on a new PC and not the laptop? – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 31 '18 at 10:44
  • I don't know, I mean I also tried SWAT4, which is an older game, and it's struggling to work too, and it's not even on full resolution (1920x1080) – sticsk Aug 31 '18 at 10:45
  • @sticsk Here are some special steps someone went through for speedy Swat 4 operations in Linux: https://www.gog.com/forum/swat_series/swat_4_for_linux – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 31 '18 at 10:50