"AMD Unsupported Hardware" watermark in Linux Mint

"AMD Unsupported Hardware" watermark in Linux Mint I just setup my new computer that has onboard video and Installed Linux Mint. I installed the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" from Hardware Drivers and now I have a watermark on the bottom left of my screen that says "AMD Unsupported Hardware".
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Guest [Entry]

"Got the answer!

support.amd***/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Found my hardware under Linux x86_64 > Integrated/Motherboard > Radeon HD 4200

""Linux x86"" means 32 bit
""Linux x86_64 means 64 bit

Download the driver somewhere (lets put it in '~/stuff')
Open up the terminal and type:

user@user-desktop:~/stuff $ cd ~/stuff
user@user-desktop:~/stuff $ chmod +x NAMEOFTHEFILEHERE.run
user@user-desktop:~/stuff $ ./NAMEOFTHEFILEHERE.run

And the driver will be installed."

Guest [Entry]

"I have an ATI HD 6520 in my Acer Ao 522. I had to upgrade to the latest driver (in my case 12-6 64bit) to get multi-displays to work.

I tried what James suggested and it didn't work for me. Though the driver seems to chug along with the replaced file. The watermark goes away when I open up Catalyst.

I may give the open source driver another shot next time I have time to fool with it. I heard ATI has better support with the open source driver than NVIDIA, though on my other machine with a Quattro card, NVIDIA drivers work great."