Fedora 9 Installation Guide

General Status

 * Uses kernel 2.6
 * Uses Xorg 7
 * Use of the ATI driver requires self build of rpm package + ubuntu tarball
 * weak performance worst then radeon/radeonhd drivers

Installation Option #1 Downgrade X and use the Livna repository
See the Fedora 9 FGLRX HOWTO

Installation Option #2 Local RPM Build
Releases through Catalyst 8.9 do not work on Fedora 9 without extensive patching/downgrading. See the Catalyst 8.4 - 8.9 failures

Installation Option #3 Ubuntu tarball

 * Download 8.542 package fglrx-8.542
 * sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8-10-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/F9
 * sudo rpm -ivh kernel....rpm
 * sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-8.....rpm
 * sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-c.....rpm


 * untar fglxrx-8.543
 * sudo cp -rv fglx/x740/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules

Issues
weak perfomance