Linux – Do I need any AMD Radeon driver for fedora 20

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This is the first time I am using AMD products, so I am not sure.

I have a laptop which has AMD Radeon 8240 (with 512MB graphics memory) and I have just installed fedora 20.

Do I need any driver for it?

Best Answer

You should have the open source driver installed by default. An easy way to check is 

lsmod | grep radeon

radeon is the open source driver for AMD/ATI cards, the command above will check to see if it is loaded. The Fedora installation should have detected your card and installed the driver automatically.

If that driver does everything you need, then fine. If not, you can also install AMD's proprietary driver, fglrx.

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