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I have installed Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 on my laptop which has a Radeon R5 M255 GPU. How can I install drivers for it? On amd website there are only for ubuntu 14.04. I just want to install them without having problems like black screen after booting.

  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2248
    Kernel driver in use: i915
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0a:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz PRO [Radeon R5 M255]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 224a
PlugaruT
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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -k | egrep 'VGA|Display' -A2 terminal command. And do not download drivers from sites. – Pilot6 May 30 '15 at 11:41
  • Why should OP "not download drivers from sites"? AMD's website should have working and trustworthy AMD drivers, if anywhere. – Michael Hoffmann Jan 19 '16 at 01:00

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Drivers can be installed from

System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Additional Drivers

Do not download any video drivers from sites. It may result in black screen after reboot or a kernel upgrade.

Ubuntu way is to install from repositories.

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fglrx should solve the problem

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates-core fglrx-updates
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  • The proprietary fglrx drivers worked for me in with 14.04, but I couldn't remember how I'd installed them. I'm upgrading to 15.04 now, so I'll be back to upvote if this still works. Thanks. – Michael Hoffmann Jan 19 '16 at 00:57