Category:Installation Documentation

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
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 including textured 3d settings is available at http://www.trbailey.net/xorg.conf
or http://www.trbailey.net/xorg.conf.copy

DO NOT JUST COPY IT UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ELO TOUCHSYSTEMS 17" MONITOR WITHOUT TOUCH SCREEN OVERLAY! AT THE VERY LEAST YOU NEED TO REMOVE THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL REFRESH LINES UNDER MONITOR TO MAKE IT WORK