elementary OS

Switch to the Nouveau driver

Asked by Quentin Fait

Is it possible to use the nouveau driver in elementary os ? Do you know how to do that please ?

(My graphic card used to work well on Fedora 17 with this driver so I think it could be a better solution for those who have a Radeon HD 6250 like me.)

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Jaap Broekhuizen (jaapz-b) said : 		#1

As far as I know the nouveau driver is the default driver for all NVidia cards. But you have an ATI card so why would you want to use the nouveau driver?

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Fait-quentin (fait-quentin) said : 		#2

Yes you're right, I forgot Nouveau was for Nvidia only. Sorry.
So, I wonder... Is there a "libre" solution for Ati ? I don't think because it would be used by default too if there were one, no ?

Thanks.

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Jaap Broekhuizen (jaapz-b) said : 		#3

The libre alternative for Radeon cards is just called "radeon", and is afaik already the default driver used for radeon cards in ubuntu.

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Fait-quentin (fait-quentin) said : 		#4

I found this link and my card doesn't seem to work with the free driver. I have my answer. Thanks again.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

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