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I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots.

I uninstalled the proprietary driver and found that Unity 3D no longer works, and I really only picked Ubuntu because of the excellent shortcuts provided in the recent versions.

Trying to locate the open source driver has been a pain for me. According to the documentation I have read it is pre-included in Ubuntu 12.04, yet there is no Unity 3D support. I tried using the newest drivers from AMD's website, but that also had the watermark.

Does anyone know how I can get the open source driver? If not, does anyone know how to remove the watermark. I'm on the verge of going back to Windows.

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There are 2 Methods

Before installing any drivers you need to install some dependencies to your system, do this by running this command

sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper
debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0
dh-modaliases

Installing the Official binary packages from Ubuntu

Method 1

To install the fglrx packages supplied by Ubuntu open a terminal and install using

sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

Method 2

Search for the Additional Drivers utility in your dash and install one of the detected drivers from the list.

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Are these the open source open binaries? I'll try this command (and accept your answer) if you say yes and it then works. – Clintonio Jul 4 '12 at 18:10
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Apparently my card is unsupported even by those drivers. I'm going to remove Ubuntu and go back to Windows. Thank you for your help. – Clintonio Jul 4 '12 at 18:54
Before you make a hasty decision, which version of the proprietary catalyst did you install – Stephen Myall Jul 4 '12 at 19:19
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Hæ?? These are specifically the CLOSED source drivers!! Read this question: askubuntu.com/questions/77661/… – stolsvik Sep 7 '12 at 22:34
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These ARE the closed source drivers. – Ozzah Nov 16 '12 at 7:30
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to remove the driver not supporting your grafics card: read the part and follow "Problem: Need to purge -fglrx" of this site: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/VideoDriverDetection

ensure with synaptic if "radeon" driver (open source) is installed the open source driver radeon should work then properly i hope :D

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Removing the watermark is very simple with a bit of cut and paste, then a command:

How to remove the “AMD Testing use only” watermark?

If you did want to use the open source drivers (which are not as feature complete) you just need to remove the fglrx driver:

sudo apt-get remove fglrx*

then ensure the open source one is installed. It should then be picked up:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

The problem with the HD 7000 series is that support for it in the open source driver only arrived around Christmas, so unless you are running the xorg-edgers PPA you would be better off with just removing the watermark for now.

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