Amd catalyst 13.1 driver for linux systems brought some improvements and bug fixes. this driver is based on the fglrx release and it improves support for ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04. this tutorial is about to easily install ati amd catalyst drivers for your cards in ubuntu/mint and ubuntu derivatives.. How to install hardware drivers on linux. chris hoffman @chrisbhoffman updated july 5, these include the proprietary graphics drivers for both nvidia and amd graphics hardware, which provide more graphics performance for gaming on linux. it will detect which proprietary drivers you can install for your hardware and allow you to install. Install latest amd driver via ppa. although your amd graphics card will probably work fine out of the box in linux mint, there could be different reasons to install a more recent driver. it is possible to install amd proprietary drivers that can be downloaded from the amd drivers page, but in linux it is a bit of a tricky process..
Linux mint forums. welcome to the linux mint forums! for help, knowledge, and fellowship. video driver for the amd graphics accelerators *fglrx version 2:15.200-oubuntu0.5 search for amd and install fglrx-amdccle-updates reboot hopefully everything should be fixed.. And you don't say which mint release you have. if it's 18.x you are not going to see amd drivers there because amd doesn't support closed binary drivers for any linux release that new. they're redoing their whole linux graphics stack, and afaik they're moving to open source drivers.. The following examples are reasons to consider installing (or reinstalling) a graphics driver: or webcam software before attempting to install the amd catalyst driver. when the downloaded installation file is run, a security prompt will appear. click run to start the installation process..
