Category:Installation Documentation

Revision as of 00:05, 9 March 2008

Documentation to install the ATi Linux driver under the different distributions of GNU/Linux.

Installing ATI Proprietary Catalyst driver 8.3 posted March 5th 2008 on Debian Lenny (testing)

This was tested by running the automated install:

Update /etc/apt/sources.list as follows:

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf bzip2 wget
aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.22-3-amd64
cd /var/tmp
su -
wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/64bit/ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run
bash ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run.bin

Follow screen for automatic installation.

aticonfig --initial
REBOOT REBOOT REBOOT

My xorg.conf is available at http://www.trbailey.net/xorg.conf.copy

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 Documentation to install the ATi Linux driver under the different distributions of GNU/Linux.
+'''Installing ATI Proprietary Catalyst driver 8.3 posted March 5th 2008 on Debian Lenny (testing)'''
+This was tested by running the automated install:
+Update /etc/apt/sources.list as follows:
+deb http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ lenny main contrib n$
+deb-src http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ lenny main contr$
+deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free<br>
+deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free<br>
+Code:<br>
+apt-get update<br>
+apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf bzip2 wget<br>
+aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.22-3-amd64<br>
+cd /var/tmp<br>
+su -<br>
+wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/64bit/ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run<br>
+bash ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run.bin<br>
+<br>
+Follow screen for automatic installation.<br>
+aticonfig --initial<br>
+REBOOT REBOOT REBOOT<br>
+<br>
+My xorg.conf is available at http://www.trbailey.net/xorg.conf.copy<br>