AMD Catalyst with Linux Mint

Dear all,
I ahve a Lenovo G10 laptop, which has an AMD RADEON R5 M230 graphic card. I have downloaded the linux drivers AMD Catalyst for my OS (Linux mint 17.1) from their site but when I start the installation process said that "hardware doesnt support the drivers". If anyone has a solution let me know

It's up to you to decide wheter it's enough or not ! If it works for you...
As mentioned above you can use vgaswitcheroo to verify. For this you need to enable _early_ KMS. (Forgot the _early_ in above post.)
What would be the advantage?
Please learn to use the wiki etc. for your own research before asking! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … de_setting
Don't forget to mark the thread solved, when this issue is resolved.[1]
Regards
[1] Edit: I meant the basic issue from your title. The thing is, I think, we try to have one issue per thread. Feel free to open another thread, when another problem/question arises (Of course after searching and trying hard to solve it by yourself first ).
Last edited by rebootl (2014-03-10 19:48:38)

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