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I'm doing my first build and have Ubuntu 12.04 successfully up and running. I've been reading a lot that there are issues trying to use a graphics card, specifically AMD. How do I go about installing this graphics card? Should it just be a plug and play ordeal? Do I need to upgrade to 12.10? Do I need to download some drivers?

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  • Thanks. I'm a complete noob with Linux, long time windows and osx user. Are you saying to upgrade to 12.10 and it will be better supported? Where can i download Catalyst? Thanks for the help. And what would you do in my situation? – MagicKnights May 12 '13 at 18:41
  • Added it as an answer. – Uri Herrera May 12 '13 at 18:48

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From my own experience with the same GPU (HD 7770) the Radeon driver doesn't provide what you'd call good support especially in the kernel version of Ubuntu 12.04, for that I used Catalyst which you can install as explained here:

If you don't want to use Catalyst for whatever reason, you can upgrade your kernel which will include better suport for newer cards from the Radeon driver, you can update it as explained here:

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