Mandriva

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ATI drivers are included in commercial release. Following instructions concern installation on the free release.

Installation with ATI installer

First of all, you have to install kernel sources :

$ su
# urpmi kernel-source

Then, download ati installer and launch it :

# chmod +x ati-driver-installer-X.X.X.run
# ./ati-driver-installer-X.X.X.run

Follow the instructions.


Slightly more information to be found here:

"3D Acceleration for ATI cards (works for SuSE, Mandriva and Debian)" at

http://linux.coconia.net/general/ati.htm
http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/ati/ati.htm (mirror)

Installation with Mandriva 2006 PLF Packages

Note: Thats are not Official Mandriva fglrx RPMS, it works perfekt on my machine.


First you must add PLF non-free repository. Use easyurpmi for example.

Then, install the driver with this command.

# urpmi ati-xorg dkms-ati

You can now choose fglrx driver for your card with the Mandriva drakx11 tool

# drakx11

Configuration

Use aticonfig. Consult help with aticonfig -h.

Reboot.


Distribution Neutral Steps

Verifying | Configuring | Troubleshooting