How to install a 'run' file?

[rado84]

I'm trying to install my video card drivers which are set in a file with extension 'run'. I've set it to be able to run as a program, opened it as admin and yet it doesn't want to run. Puma says something about charsets and the bottom line is it won't start the file.

[zerozero]

what video card you have?
give us, please, the output of

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inxi -Gx

have you tried the additional drivers utility? there's nothing there listed for your card?

[rado84]

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rado@rado-desktop ~ $ inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper XT [AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series] bus-ID: 04:00.0
           X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa,fbdev) Resolution: 1366x768@59.8hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes

Apparently it has some kind of basic drivers because the system fonts look too large and thus I know there are not specific custom drivers.

[oobetimer]

1. Open terminal and go to the run-file folder cd /path_to/run_package
2. Install a run package using command sh package.run

If you need to be root use sudo sh ......

A video about installing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTJnREzJCgQ&feature=plcp

[rado84]

Thanks, that worked!

[zerozero]

Edit: i see you got it sorted already

yeahh, as you can see from that output you are using Gallium (the open-source driver) and not the amd drivers;
as i said before: have you tried the additional drivers?