Linux mint ethereum mining w/ claymore

[Shmee]

So I have a portable install of linux mint 18.1 on a USB3 SSD. I have been trying to get claymore eth dual miner setup on it so I can run it on one of my AMD radeon systems, but so far I cannot get the miner to run. I tried updating AMD drivers through the software update, I tried installing AMD Radeon Pro drivers, which so far I have not been able to. I read online I needed to update the kernel from 4.4 to 4.8, and now it won't finish booting...OK so I can reinstall if need be.

My question is, what is the optimal way to get these drivers installed and claymore working? Cards would be 290s or a Fury, and I use the cinnamon version. I use linux a lot as a tool at work, though my knowledge of terminal commands and configuration is more basic. Thanks

 

[Crono]

I've mainly used Xubuntu for ethereum mining, but switched to only using Windows the past year. Does Mint support fglrx drivers for AMD? Last I checked, AMD dropped support with Ubuntu 16.04. Don't recall if you need the AMD APP SDK as well for mining still.

EDIT: apparently it does work with the Pro drivers on 16.04 LTS(no clue about newer versions, which don't play well with Ryzen for me yet), don't think I managed to get mining working when it first released, though.

 

[Shmee]

Looks like mint 18 dropped support for the proprietary drivers, worked with 17.3 though I believe. Do you need the proprietary drivers to mine? Or is their a way to run with open source drivers?