Fedora 8 Installation Guide

Revision as of 05:09, 11 November 2007

General Status

• Fedora 8 is included as a generatable package since version 8.42.3 of the AMD Proprietary Linux driver. "sh ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg | grep -i fedora" shows "Fedora/F8" in the output.
• Unfortunately the driver kernel module currently fails to compile since Linux kernel version 2.6.23 is not yet supported. See this bugzilla report for kernel 2.6.23 for more information.

Installation from Livna repository

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install -y kmod-fglrx

and restart X

Installation via ATI Installer

The above bugzilla contains a patch to the firegl module source code. Here is an annotated walk-through for those not familiar with using the patch utility:

• Install the driver interactively

sh ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

• Backup the existing module, download the patch

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
cp firegl_public.c firegl_public.c.orig
wget -qO- http://ati.cchtml.com/attachment.cgi?id=466 > firegl.patch

• Apply the patch

patch -p0 < firegl.patch

• Now build and install the kernel module

./make.sh
cd .. ; ./make_install.sh

• Create an initial X Server configuration file

aticonfig --initial

• Restart your X Server (by logging in/out or rebooting)

Other Issues

• AMD/ATI Catalist Control Center fails to start, see this bugzilla entry.

See Also

• Frequently Asked Questions#Why does fglrx not work for my bleeding-edge kernel?