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I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS recently on an HP laptop with AMD graphics card, however I have noticed occasional screen flickering and Ubuntu freezing after suspend.

I tried looking into the graphics driver in use and found that currently Ubuntu uses:

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)

Intel Graphics, I want to switch to AMD however I don't know the details of the graphics card and needed a guide as to how I can Install the driver and get Ubuntu to recognise it.

ubuntu-drivers devices
== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

It does not recommend any other drivers.

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This post was helpful in detecting AMD graphics, how do I now switch to AMD graphics card?

lspci -nn | grep '\[03'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09)
0a:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265] [1002:6900] (rev ff)
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    problem is Ubuntu is not able to detect AMD so I am not able to obtain the graphic card details to enable me to install the driver from here – CaptainDaVinci Jun 01 '17 at 07:50
  • The AMD graphics driver is built-in in Ubuntu 16.04 so you don't need to download anything, and as you noted your problem is that Ubuntu is not able to detect the AMD graphics card. – karel Jun 01 '17 at 07:53

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