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I've already made a post about this, I made the switch from an Nvidia GPU to an AMD one and I was wondering if I needed to install anything extra. I've heard the drivers are included inside the kernel but how do I ensure that it's installed?

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. Default drivers should work just fine. If you want to make sure they're installed and running, run the following in a terminal:

glxinfo | grep Mesa

If you have any output, you have Mesa. It'll tell you what version you have as well.

[–] Yoru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yes it’s installed, also is there a program I can use to configure? Something like NVIDIA control panel but for AMD

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I like corectl for overclocking and whatnot. But as far as I know there isn't something similar to Nvidia control panel on windows

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I've personally never heard of or used any driver control panels for mesa. It just works with 0 fuss for me. If you mean graphical settings, your desktop environment's control panel should have some knobs and buttons.