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Hello, I've recently installed Mint, and honestly I am blown away! This OS is great, and I knew before installing there might be issues that I'd have to dig out on Google.

Yet I've searched all over and I can't find anything on Google for the new 13.1 ATI drivers. It keeps telling me that it can't open the installer for x86.x86_64 because gedit can't open with the current locale font format (UTF8).

I'm scratching my head trying to figure this out since I am a complete noob, and after searching on Tom's Hardware someone had suggested to do 'sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates', therefore it's what I am doing right now.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1801095/driver-linux-mint.html

Yet I'm wondering if this is adequate enough, since ATI has released specific preliqu-..preliminary- something that starts with a p, drivers for Linux. I will take a screen shot after a few minutes and upload to show what I mean.

For the meantime my main issue is my external 1TB HDD- called the my book. Obviously it doesn't support Linux. *Lightbulb* could I not just use WINE to virtualbox a Windows-window and that way somehow just use an exe file to install any driver, or open my external HDD unlocker THROUGH the WINE-box?

Thoughts and comments, please. =]
 
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gedit is a text editor, so if you are trying to install a driver that you downloaded, you would not use gedit in the terminal to do it. If it is a ".run" file that you downloaded and you want to in stall it you have to use the following in the terminal (you have to navigate to the folder that the file is in):

Code: 
sudo chmod +x "PackageName.run"
Code: 
 sudo ./"PackageName.run"

Most likely you will get crap for a version of the driver already being installed. I've never had luck uninstalling them using the command line (something I'm doing wrong I'm sure), so I've always had to use --force to get them to install. I'm sure this is not generally recommended, but it has worked for me. If I remember right you would add --force at the...
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gedit is a text editor, so if you are trying to install a driver that you downloaded, you would not use gedit in the terminal to do it. If it is a ".run" file that you downloaded and you want to in stall it you have to use the following in the terminal (you have to navigate to the folder that the file is in):

Code: 
sudo chmod +x "PackageName.run"
Code: 
 sudo ./"PackageName.run"

Most likely you will get crap for a version of the driver already being installed. I've never had luck uninstalling them using the command line (something I'm doing wrong I'm sure), so I've always had to use --force to get them to install. I'm sure this is not generally recommended, but it has worked for me. If I remember right you would add --force at the end of the 2nd command above. So "sudo ./PackageName.run --force"

I think you are misunderstanding what WINE is too, it's not a virtual machine. I don't see why your drive wouldn't be supported, does anything happen when you plug it in? Do you see it when you open the file browser? Typically external drives are found in /media. You could look in your partition manager and see if it is recognized.
 
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Well to be honest you have to unlock it via 'unlock.exe', the external hdd that is. Which sucks since I moved a lot of the stuff I partitioned into the external hdd.

Oddly enough, I was going to take a screenshot of the ATI Radeon 3200 drivers, but the package has disappeared. I have no idea why, it even says it's in the /tmp/ folder yet it's invisible for all I can see. Would fglrx drivers be enough for my integrated graphics? I'm basically having to install almost everything manually in a work-around type way which doesn't surprise me. I have to say though, Mint is way more stable than XP or W7.

So there is no way to install drivers through WINE? If not, then I'll stick with what I can get.
 
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You don't use WINE to install drivers. WINE is for running Windows programs in Linux (some programs, not all), it is not used for installing drivers. There are native Linux drivers for your graphics card.

If I were you, I'd go into Menu > System Setting > Driver Manager. Use whatever driver it suggests there.

If you want to get the latest cutting edge drivers for your card, you can get them from AMD's website. Make sure you select the Linux driver, not the Windows one. Once you download it (should be a .run file or a zipped up .run file), you can open the terminal and use the commands that I posted above to install them. But I'd just stick with the Driver Manager.

What's the deal with your hard drive, it must be encrypted?
 
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I get no drivers in the driver manager, at all. So I'll use the amd drivers from their website. Also yes it's encrypted until unlocked by unlocker.exe, so I'm fairly sure there's not much to do about that.

Thanks for the help =]
 
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For the AMD driver installation under Linux Mint, check this link.

As already said, you need to
Code: 
sudo chmod +x amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13...
to make the driver executable.

Then you run the installer like this:
Code: 
./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13....run --listpkg

Note: You need to change the name of the installer file !!! Or just type the beginning of the file name and press <TAB> to auto-complete.

So I guess your external drive is encrypted? There might be a way to unlock it in Linux, but I don't know. Sorry.
 
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Linux Mint 16 (LM16) uses Xorg 1.14.3
That means that you have to download the latest beta version of AMD drivers from the link in this post:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=152471&p=797032#p797032

Previous versions of Mint required that you regressed Xorg to an eralier version in order to use
AMD's catalyst driver.

You may also need to install the kernel headers if the AMD catalyst driver fails to install.
After installation you can create a default xorg.conf

sudo aticonfig --initial

And then reboot. If an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is present then LM16 will use it but
many modern distributions probe the hardware and use KMS (kernel mode settings)
to probe the display and graphics card and set optimum resolution.
Hope that helps.
 
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That won't be necessary, I just found out earlier today that for my integrated card (Radeon HD 3200) that AMD had dropped support for older drivers in newer versions of Linux. Basically, there is completely no way for me to use the fglrx open-source OR proprietary drivers in Linux Mint 16 XFCE.

They are supported in Linux Mint 13 and below, however. So tonight I'll be downloading the Linux Mint 13 XFCE ISO and see if this is true, or if it just will not happen. I don't know if I've tried everything I can, but nothing for my card shows in the mint 16 driver manager, and there are numerous missing files or a plethora of driver errors after I install, uninstall, install another variation or method, and reinstall.

This being said, I still like Mint A LOT, I'm almost in love with it. All I need is drivers for my card and I'll never look back.:) Also being said, to even be able to get a new CPU and 7000 series GPU, I still have taxes to take care of. So from here until that is done, I'm gonna be stuck with these old drivers.

Thanks for your help everyone, it's frustrating and I have patience. Yet right now I'm just ready to settle until my motivation has had some rest. =]
 
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That won't be necessary, I just found out earlier today that for my integrated card (Radeon HD 3200) that AMD had dropped support for older drivers in newer versions of Linux. Basically, there is completely no way for me to use the fglrx open-source OR proprietary drivers in Linux Mint 16 XFCE.

They are supported in Linux Mint 13 and below, however. So tonight I'll be downloading the Linux Mint 13 XFCE ISO and see if this is true, or if it just will not happen. I don't know if I've tried everything I can, but nothing for my card shows in the mint 16 driver manager, and there are numerous missing files or a plethora of driver errors after I install, uninstall, install another variation or method, and reinstall.

This being said, I still like Mint A LOT, I'm almost in love with it. All I need is drivers for my card and I'll never look back.:) Also being said, to even be able to get a new CPU and 7000 series GPU, I still have taxes to take care of. So from here until that is done, I'm gonna be stuck with these old drivers.

Thanks for your help everyone, it's frustrating and I have patience. Yet right now I'm just ready to settle until my motivation has had some rest. =]
 
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