Scientific Linux

Revision as of 16:54, 2 April 2012

Scientific Linux 5.0

The ATI driver installer as of version 8.2.4 has the ability to build RPMs.

ati-driver-installer-VERSION-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg

shows the packages it can build. You may use the Red Hat drivers for Scientific Linux. For Scientific Linux 6 (64-bit) you would run:

ati-driver-installer-X.X.X-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg RedHat/RHEL6_64a

and it generated RPMs for your specific version (e.g. version 12-3 produces) :

 fglrx64_p_i_c-8.951-1.x86_64.rpm

To install these RPMs run

rpm -Uvh <rpm_path>

After the RPM installation, make sure to run aticonfig to setup your video card.

aticonfig --initial

Your setup may be tested when X is not running with:

startx

Distribution Neutral Steps

Verifying | Configuring | Troubleshooting

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 == Scientific Linux 5.0 ==
-The ATI driver installer ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run has the ability to build RPMs.
+The ATI driver installer as of version 8.2.4 has the ability to build RPMs.
-  ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg
+  ati-driver-installer-''VERSION''-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg
-shows the packages it can build.
+shows the packages it can build. You may use the Red Hat drivers for Scientific Linux. For
-There is no RHEL 5 option yet, but I've read somewhere that RHEL5 is based on FC6.
+Scientific Linux 6 (64-bit) you would run:
-Given that I tried to build
-  ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/FC6
+  ati-driver-installer-X.X.X-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg RedHat/RHEL6_64a
-and it generated the following RPMs:
+and it generated RPMs for your specific version (e.g. version 12-3 produces) :
+  fglrx64_p_i_c-8.951-1.x86_64.rpm
- ATI-fglrx-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
- ATI-fglrx-control-center-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
- ATI-fglrx-devel-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
- ATI-fglrx-IA32-libs-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
- fglrx_6_8_0-8.36.5-1.i386.rpm
- kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
-fglrx_6_8_0-8.36.5-1.i386.rpm is for 32-bit.
 To install these RPMs run
-  rpm -Uvh ATI-fglrx* kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
+  rpm -Uvh ''<rpm_path>''
-Run
+After the RPM installation, make sure to run aticonfig to setup your video card.
   aticonfig --initial
-and you could try it with:
+Your setup may be tested when X is not running with:
   startx
-or
- telinit 5
-When you happy with the new driver you need to ensure that you have
- id:5:initdefault:
-in your /etc/inittab and reboot the box.
-Please note, that SL5.0 installation did not recognise my card: ATI X1600 [Asus A6000KT laptop] so I had no X running and the default init mode was '''3''' [not '''5''']. YMMV.
-I still do not know how to rebuild the kernel module for the different kernels.
-By default the kernel module is being build for the current kernel [uname -r]
-Today was the first security kernel upgrade revision  2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.
-So after new kernel installation I repeated the same procedure and installed new kernel module with
- rpm -ivh kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5-8.36.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
 {{VCT}}
 [[Category:Distributions]]
 [[Category:NeedsUpdating]]

Scientific Linux

Revision as of 16:54, 2 April 2012

Scientific Linux 5.0

Personal tools

Namespaces

Variants

Views

Actions

Search

Navigation

resources

Toolbox

Google