There is a trickle down effect. Most Linux drivers are supported by the kernel and it takes time to get written into the kernel. External proprietary drivers do not usually work well (or live up to your expectations) and frequently cause other problems. I would not be tempted to try it. I have in the past gone to a lot of trouble only to find that it is undone and I have to keep on going to a lot of trouble to get it to work while if I was patient it would be in the next kernel.
Give us a report on Qiana when you install it.
Roy
On Monday, April 21, 2014 11:06:55 PM, Loyal Barber <loyal_barber@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Joan,
>
> Thanks for your reply. So Ubuntu 14 has better driver support than
> Mint 16 for the new (garbage) BIOS?
That is true. The Mint version of Ubuntu 14.04 will be out next month.
I am a big fan
of Mint but installed Lubuntu 14.04 to see if the driver for my netbook
was fixed. It
wasn't in Lubuntu 13.10 but was in Lubuntu 14.04. Now I can't wait to
get the
new version of Mint. I will continue testing Lubuntu in the mean-time.
> Interesting. I found a beta
> driver file (proprietary) on the AMD site but can't figure out how
> to load it. One of the forums suggests that it will work but not
> unless I can get it installed. Link is
> http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux%20x86 .
> I have the file on the desktop of the computer but don't have
> the commands to let terminal install it!
Now you will:
1. Open the Mint menu.
2. Select Accessories->Terminal. This will give you a Linux terminal.
When someone tells you to
"open a terminal" or "run from the command line" this is what they
mean. Run the terminal.
3. Unzip the beta package. If you downloaded it to the desktop, the
command would be
unzip ~/Desktop/linux-amd-catalyst-14.4-rc-v1.0-apr17.zip
4. This will create a directory "fglrx-14.10"
5. Go into this directory by typing the following command
cd fglrx-14.10
6. Now run the installer:
./amd-driver-installer-14.10-x86.x86_64.run
I don't know for sure what it does from here as I don't have an AMD
graphics card on any Linux
machine I have at my house.
> Converting a 60 year
> old mind into a new OS is a problem!
I am 54 and started learning Linux about a dozen years ago. Yet I learn
something new in
Linux almost every day.
>
> I have another laptop that I dropped it onto "slick as a whistle"
> but the newest one is giving me the problems.
>
Isn't that the way it works? The old stuff works but not the new. You
should try that in
Windoze. In that case the old stuff won't run Windoze and the new stuff
comes with
a buggy driver for Windoze.
> Thanks for your suggestion and help!
>
> Mark
Loyal
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