AMD R5 M240 drivers for ubuntu 14.04

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I just installed ubuntu 14.04 on my thinkpad E555 with AMD R5 M240(kaveri) but i cant find any drivers and i think they are not automatically installed because at system details as Graphics is: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe(LLVM 3.5 m 128bits) and the interface is laggy.

Thanks,

Have you tried launching 'Additional Drivers' from the menu? In some cases there will be proprietary drivers available there which you can install. — , Mar 08 '15 at 15:55
possible duplicate of What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD? — David Foerster, Mar 24 '15 at 09:59

Codica · Answer 1 · 2015-07-13T20:21:39.793

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The AMD Radeon R5 M240 seems to require at least Kernel 3.15 and Mesa 10.3. So you have the following options:

Update to Ubuntu 14.10 or newer.
Install a fresh Trusty point release 14.04.2 or

Update your kernel and mesa with LTSEnablementStack, e.g. (using aptitude)

sudo aptitude install linux-generic-lts-utopic  libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic

See the bug 1410205 and the explanation of LTSEnhancementStack.

edited Jul 13 '15 at 20:21

answered Jul 13 '15 at 19:23

Codica

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There are kernels 3.16 and 3.19 for 14.04. – Pilot6 Jul 13 '15 at 19:24
Well, probably you could also install mesa 10.3 with Ubuntu 14.04, but with Ubuntu 14.10, it will run out of the box. – Codica Jul 13 '15 at 19:33
In 14.04.2 it is out of the box. And kernel 3.16. – Pilot6 Jul 13 '15 at 19:35
Thanks to pilot6, I have learnt about LTS Enablement and edited my answer. Hopefully, it is correct. – Codica Jul 13 '15 at 20:14
Not 100% correct, but not that bad. – Pilot6 Jul 13 '15 at 20:22

AMD R5 M240 drivers for ubuntu 14.04

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