radeon cards -- the 5xxx series and the 6xxx series. Also applicable to older Radeon HD cards.
Go to the AMD website, then go to the Drivers and Downloads section. From here you should be able select your precise card along with your system architecture-- whether its 32-bit or 64-bit. This again depends on the operating system architecture you use.
To find your architecture( of course you will know if you know which distro you have downloaded ) open the terminal and type this
$uname -a
Then go ahead and download your respective driver.
fire up a terminal or press ctrl+alt+t after completing the download. Type this assuming you are using the bash shell (other shells must also work).
$bash ati-driver-installer-11-5-x86.x86_64.run press enter
A dialog box will open up and press continue and follow the remaining steps. If you want to generate the distribution specific driver it's upto you but its not recommended and there is no need, just install your drivers.
Systems on which I have installed successfully--
Ubuntu and derivatives
Debian
Slackware
fedora
mandriva
Pardus
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