No drivers available for AMD

[deepakdeshp]

Hello,
My configuration is as follows. When I go to driver manager I cant find any fglrx driver for my AMD . Mint 17.2 has support for AMD with fglrx in driver manager.
With normal usage like youtube, browsing, using libre office is it wort going to Mint 17.3? But 17.3 EOL is approaching now and 18.3 EOL is 2 years more than 17.3.
I think the drivers for my AMD isnt available as AMD hasnt released any driver for 18.3. Ideally I would have liked to install drivers for v 18.3.
Thanks all for any answers

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inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: mint-18-uma Kernel: 4.9.82-040982-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.3.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 80CC v: 99.50
           Bios: Insyde v: F.22 date: 07/25/2016
CPU:       Quad core AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 17568
           clock speeds: max: 2200 MHz 1: 1800 MHz 2: 2000 MHz 3: 1600 MHz
           4: 1300 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
           bus-ID: 00:01.0
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: AMD MULLINS (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.82-040982-generic, LLVM 5.0.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.4 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.82-040982-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: rtl8723be port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (20.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS545050A7 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 61G used: 43G (75%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 5.35GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.6C mobo: 20.0C gpu: N/A,43.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 269 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 2757.3/6919.3MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.1
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35   

[shawnhcorey]

Yeah if you have an old ATI/AMD graphics card you have to use the generic driver, xserver-xorg-video-ati.

[deepakdeshp]

Yeah if you have an old ATI/AMD graphics card you have to use the generic driver, xserver-xorg-video-ati.

In Driver manager there is no option to choose any driver.

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lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (rev 45)
01:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330] [1002:6660] (rev ff)
uma@mint-18-uma /sys $ lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (rev 45)
01:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330] [1002:6660] (rev ff)

[Sir Charles]

Have a look here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xs ... -video-ati