ATI drivers for an old laptop card

I'm trying to revive an old ~2008 laptop using Ubuntu and be able to play a few Steam games on it. Unfortunately the HD2600 ATI card on it is either not recognized when deciding to install the proprietary drivers or is no longer supported (I'm not sure which).

I've tried both 12.04.3 LTS and 13.10 and both give me the same result.

Usually when I want to install the proprietary drivers I just fire up the "additional drivers" option. On this laptop that menu is blank basically.

I know the HD2XXX series has been discontinued on Windows and they provide a legacy driver for it. Is it also discontinued on Linux? Is there a way to install a legacy mobility driver?

 

Have you checked the manufacturer's site for linux drivers? If they have one you can then install it manually. That's about all I can think of...

 

Using AMD's website, here is 32bit and 64bit links for HD2xxxx

32x
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy2&os=Linux x86

64x
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy2&os=Linux x86_64

By memory - extract them, mark the .SH file as executable and then run through terminal

Have fun..

 

Doesn't sound like it's going to go down too well :/