The process is the same as with other operating systems. You go to the laptop manufacturer's website and download the drivers provided there. If there's none for linux, it means it's not supported and you can't. At least officially.
Unofficially you can try googling around for solutions, finding drivers in repositories and stuff like that. The linux community may be able to help you, AMD almost certainly not.
With the HD 4200 you're probably stuck with open souce drivers as linux support for legacy cards is almost unexistant, even on the desktop side.
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