How to install GPU driver?

[DangerDuD]

Im new to linux. so i dont know much about linux.
My gpu is ATI redon HD 5450
How can i install driver for my gpu so that my video quality enhanced

[Pierre]

try using - Menu - Control Center - - Administration - Driver Manager ..

this should then search for any available Device Drivers & display any drivers that are available.

should this come back, with 'no drivers found' - - then you must install those drivers, manually.

and to assist us, somewhat - - type this into Terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

and copy the result, back here, on your reply.

[whatausername64]

try using - Menu - Control Center - - Administration - Driver Manager ..

this should then search for any available Device Drivers & display any drivers that are available.

should this come back, with 'no drivers found' - - then you must install those drivers, manually.

Isn't that only for proprietary drivers? Even then, their AMD graphics card wouldn't be listed on there since AMDGPU nor AMDGPU-Pro supports their gpu, with it being an old card. Only the open-source radeon drivers, which already would've been installed, supports the HD 5450.

[Pierre]

yeah - amdgpu is also open-source & amdgpu-pro is the new proprietary driver,, but only supports newer chipsets. ..
and
Depending on your exact graphics hardware, Ubuntu 16.04 will use either the open-source AMDGPU driver or the open-source Radeon driver, both of which are included in the default Ubuntu installation. The amdgpu driver, pre-installed in 16.04, is used for AMD's newest graphics cards. The radeon driver, also pre-installed in 16.04, is used for older AMD graphics cards that the amdgpu driver doesn't support (your graphics card was launched in 2010).

so - it would still pay to check with the Driver Manager, as the OP didn't specify, which LinuxMint that was being used.

[DangerDuD]

From driver manager i got nothing

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And from amd website i found this

Screenshot from 2019-02-10 21-07-01.png

Will this work?

[Hoser Rob]

Do NOT install AMD Catalyst drivers form their site, dl'ing drivers from a mfr's site is actually usually a bad idea in Linux, unlike WInodws, but especially so with AMD. That would break your video, for sure. Catalyst hasn't been supported in Linux releases for some time and if still it were that card's too old for it.

Sorry, there's no magic driver here. You have the open source radeon driver. That's the only one there is for those cards.

[DangerDuD]

Do NOT install AMD Catalyst drivers form their site, dl'ing drivers from a mfr's site is actually usually a bad idea in Linux, unlike WInodws, but especially so with AMD. That would break your video, for sure. Catalyst hasn't been supported in Linux releases for some time and if still it were that card's too old for it.

Sorry, there's no magic driver here. You have the open source radeon driver. That's the only one there is for those cards.

How should i know which one is installed now? If there's no drivers installed the how to installed? Any link would be helpful too if u don't have time

[LisaRobertsI7]

Before you install the new card, you need to make sure older drivers for the card you're replacing are uninstalled

[karlchen]

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