Mint 18.x Radeon R9 290 / R9 290X Driver Installation
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Download and Install AMD ATI Radeon R9 290 / R9 290X Video Graphics Card Driver in Mint 18.x Sarah/Serena/Sonya/Sylvia LTS 64-bit Mate/Cinnamon/KDE/Xfce GNU/Linux Desktop.
The following Instructions shows you How to Download & Install the AMDGPU Pro Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver.

Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
Download AMD ATI Radeon Driver in Mint
Grab the Ubuntu 16.04 Version.
Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp.
Or from Shell:tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro* -C /tmp
Then Amend the Installation Script
Because by default it supports Only Ubuntu..sudo nano +49 amdgpu-pro-install
This to find and edit near the 49th row of the Script.
(Use the Arrows to Navigate)
And Change:case "$ID" in/nubuntu)
In:
case "$ID_LIKE" in/nubuntu)
Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano Editor :)
Installing the Radeon Mint Driver
Change to the Target directory:cd /tmp/amdgpu-pro*
Install it with:
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
Wait patiently until the Kermel modules are build and installed…