Fitlet: Installing Linux Mint 18

Prepare installation media

• A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
• Download latest Linux Mint release http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
• For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
• For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial

Base installation of Linux Mint

• Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
• Disconnect the installation media and reboot.
• Login using previously selected username and password.

Radeon open-source graphics drivers

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vdpau-va-driver vdpauinfo mesa-vdpau-drivers libvdpau-va-gl1 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu libdrm-amdgpu1
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/
sudo ln -s vdpau_drv_video.so radeonsi_drv_video.so
sudo ln -s vdpau_drv_video.so r600_drv_video.so

See also

• Kodi and VLC
• AHCI Link Power Management
• Watchdog
• GPIO