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No "Additional Drivers" for Radeon 2100 under Ubuntu 12.04

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2408 / 1 Year ago, thu, april 20, 2023, 9:26:04

After the upgrade to 12.04, it doesn't find drivers for my Radeon 2100 in the "Additional Drivers" window. I can't remember having problems with this before. Moving windows etc is very slow, and I suspect this is because of the missing driver.

Is there an easy way to install the driver for Radeon 2100 on Ubuntu 12.04?

$ lspci -nn | grep VGA

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon 2100 [1002:796e]

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answered 1 Year ago hirtieve · Accepted Answer

ATI/AMD dropped Catalyst support for these cards in Catalyst 9-4. These cards are supported with the legacy ATI 9-3 Catalyst release, but you MUST use a kernel <= 2.6.28 and Xserver <= 1.5. For example, you can use Catalyst 9-3 if you're running Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny/5.0. Open source support is good and 3D is still improving.

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You cannot use any driver other than the open source driver in 12.04 since you cannot use a lower version of the kernel just for drivers purpose. The legacy drivers supplied by AMD will also no work with this card.