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= Officially Supported (Catalyst & Open Source) =
The following hardware is supported by current releases of the Catalyst/fglrx driver. Open source drivers will work as well. Note that RadeonHD 6xx0 chips will need kernel 2.6.38 for open-source mode-setting, xf86-video-ati/radeon 6.14.0 for 2D acceleration (EXA/Xv), and Mesa 7.11 for 3D acceleration.

* R600 Radeon HD 2900
* RV610/RV630 Radeon HD 2400/2600, M71, M72, M74, M76
* RV620 Radeon HD 3450/3470, M82
* RV635 Radeon HD 3650/3670, M86
* RV670 Radeon HD 3850/3870, M88
* RS780 Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300
* RS880 Radeon HD 4100/4200/4290
* RV710 Radeon HD 4350/4550, M92
* RV730 Radeon HD 4650/4670, M96
* RV770 Radeon HD 4850/4870, M97, M98
* CEDAR Radeon HD 5450
* REDWOOD Radeon HD 5550/5570/5670
* JUNIPER Radeon HD 5730/5750/5770
* CYPRESS Radeon HD 5830/5850/5870
* HEMLOCK Radeon HD 5970
* PALM Radeon HD 6310/6250
* BARTS Radeon HD 6850/6870
* CAICOS Radeon HD 6350/6450
* TURKS Radeon HD 6670
* CAYMAN Radeon HD 6950/6970 (requires Catalyst 11.4b; open-source requires kernel 2.6.39)

= Old Radeon Legacy (Open Source) =
These cards are no longer actively supported by AMD as of the 8.28.8 fglrx driver. Unless you run an ancient distro, using the open [http://www.diamondlinks.net/link building] source drivers is your only option.

* R100 Radeon 7200
* RV100 Radeon 7000(VE), M6, RN50/ES1000
* RS100 Radeon IGP320(M)
* RV200 Radeon 7500, M7, FireGL 7800
* RS200 Radeon IGP330(M)/IGP340(M)
* RS250 Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
* R200 Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
* RV250 Radeon 9000PRO/9000, M9
* RV280 Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE/9250, M9+
* RS300 Radeon 9100 IGP
* RS350 Radeon 9200 IGP

= Radeon (Catalyst Legacy & Open Source) =

ATI/AMD dropped Catalyst support for these cards in Catalyst 9-4. These cards are supported with the legacy ATI 9-3 Catalyst release, but you MUST use a kernel 2.6.28 (or earlier) and Xserver 1.5 (or earlier). For example, you can use Catalyst 9-3 if you're running [http://www.mycaal.com/loan modification] Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny/5.0. Open source support is good and 3D is still improving.

* RS400/RS480 Radeon XPRESS 200(M)/1100 IGP
* R300 Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500/9600TX, FireGL X1/Z1
* R350 Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2
* R360 Radeon 9800XT
* RV350 Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600/9550, M10/M11, FireGL T2
* RV360 Radeon 9600XT
* RV370 Radeon X300, M22
* RV380 Radeon X600, M24
* RV410 Radeon X700, M26 PCIE
* R420 Radeon X800 AGP
* R423/R430 Radeon X800, M28 PCIE
* R480/R481 Radeon X850 PCIE/AGP
* RS482 Radeon (Xpress) 200
* RV505 Radeon X1300, M52, M62
* RV515 Radeon X1400, M54, M64
* RV516 Radeon X1500
* RV550 Radeon X2300
* R520 Radeon X1800, M58
* RV530/RV560 Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700, M56, M66
* RV570/R580 Radeon X1900/X1950, M68
* RS600/RS690 Radeon (Xpress) X1200/X1250/X1270
* RS740 Radeon X2100
* FireGL T2 (4154)
* FireGL V3100 (5B64)
* FireGL V3200 (3E54)
* FireGL V3300 (5E49)
* FireGL V5000 (5E48)
* FireGL V5100 (5551)
* FireGL V7100 (5550)
* FireGL X1 (4E47)
* FireGL X2-256/X2-256t (4E4B)
* FireGL X3-256 (4A4D)
* FireGL Z1 (4147)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for open source computing. It is sold by subscription, delivers continuous value and is certified by top enterprise hardware and software vendors. From the desktop to the datacenter, Enterprise Linux couples the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform." -redhat.com

Please note that Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core are distantly related and are not the same product. Please see the [[Fedora]] distribution page for more details.

Another option for those wanting the stability of RHEL, there are various RHEL clones, some of them listed below:

- [http://centos.org/ CentOS] is a community effort which tracks each RHEL release and update and offers up2date and yum service. All this for free, donations encouraged.

- The [http://linux.startcom.org/ StartCom Linux] operating systems, are based on the RedHat Enterprise and Fedora source code each modified with reliability, security and efficiency in mind, to fit the tasks assigned to each flavor of StartCom Linux.

==Installation Workaround for RHEL clones==
Installation of current RPMs like fglrx_6_8_0-8.42.3-1.i386.rpm may fail on RHEL clones with this error message:

FATAL: Module fglrx not found.
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5182: line 807: [: =: unary operator expected

The problem is that the installation script searches for the string "Red Hat" in /etc/redhat-release. So before installing the RPM simply replace "CentOS" by "Red Hat" in /etc/redhat-release using a text editor. After the RPM has installed successfully I recommend to restore your old /etc/redhat-release. For StartCom Linux create the file /etc/redhat-release with the string "Red Hat" in it. This seems to have been fixed as of CentOS 5.1.

==Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3 (RHEL 4.3 and CentOS 4.3)==
The ATI GUI installer worked just fine for me with my Radeon 9700 Pro and CentOS (RHEL) 4.3. ATI claims to "officially" support both RHEL and SUSE, So contrary to the complex install procedure shown on the SUSE pages of this wiki, if you have RHEL, I would go with the simplest [http://www.mycaal.com/loan modification] approach in the Related Resources link below.
== Important Note as of 5/18/2009 ==
None of the above seems to work for an ATI Radeon HD4670 (512 MB) with the Dell S2409W 24" widescreen LCD on a Dell XPS 435MT (core i7-920) running under 64 bit CentOS 5.3 with the latest updates as of 5/18/2009. "Automatic" installation of the ATI Catalyst 9.4 driver seems to run smoothly, fglrxinfo detects and reports the graphics hardware, and aticonfig --initial reports that it saved a backup of xorg.conf. However, restart X11 (or reboot the PC) and what you get is an incomprehensible screen full of big squares peppered with little dots. Alt-R will reboot the PC and allow use of CD 1 to reboot linux in rescue mode, after which the driver's uninstall script works nicely. So no permanent harm seems to be done.

Here is what finally worked on this particular hardware:

First, to save time and effort, as root edit /etc/inittab and change runlevel to 3. Replace this line
<pre>id:5:initdefault:</pre>
with
<pre># id:5:initdefault:
# for tinkering with display and xorg.conf
# boots to text mode, requires startx to start X
id:3:initdefault:</pre>
Then the system will boot to multiuser with text display, and X can be started by startx.

Next, make sure that the required packages have been installed. After reading the installation instructions, I used CentOS 5.3's graphical Package Manager to install the Development Libraries, Gnome Software Development, and X Software Development. Undoubtedly this adds more than the bare minimum, but disk space is cheap and (my) time is not.

I took the path of generating and testing rpms. This made it easy to back out of any drivers that failed to work (and plenty failed)--just ^-Alt-Backspace to break out of X, then at the command line
<pre>rpm -e drivername</pre>
e.g.
<pre>rpm -e fglrx64_7_1_0</pre>
and finally make sure that /etc/X11/xorg.conf was restored to a copy of its original form.

'''Caution:''' when testing, one version (8.6) responded to startx by blanking the screen for several seconds, during which the fans in the Dell XPS 435 revved up and stayed revved up. This made me nervous as I imagined the possibility that the video card might overheat (read something about that somewhere on the WWW in connection with a different card and a different driver). I had to repeatedly press ^-Alt-Del and ^-Alt-Backspace to stop it and reboot.

Finally I discovered that the 8.8 version worked with my hardware.

'''Installing the version 8.8 driver'''

The ATI page for the 8.8 version actually placed a file called ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run on my Desktop. The name suggests that it's 8.7, but I tried it anyway.

As root,
<pre>sh ./ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run</pre>
brought up a panel that I used to select "Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package." I selected RedHat/RHEL5_64a (RedHat/RHEL5 for 32 bit). The driver package turned out to be an rpm called fglrx64_7_1_0-8.512-1.x86_64.rpm (fglrx_7_1_0-8.512-1.i386.rpm for 32 bit).

Then I ran
<pre>rpm -Uvh fglrx64_7_1_0-8.512-1.x86_64.rpm</pre>
which failed with an error message that indicated it needed compat-libstdc++-33. After installing that, I tried installing the fglrx... rpm again, which succeeded. Finally, I typed
<pre>aticonfig --initial</pre>
at the system prompt.

I rebooted, logged in as myself (not root), ran startx, and was relieved to see that the display was in a higher resolution mode, and ATI Catalyst Control Center now appeared in the System / Preferences and System / Administration menus.

Turns out I couldn't run ATI Catalyst Control Center as myself--had to su, then run amdcccle at the command line.

After verifying that all was well, as root I restored the boot runlevel to 5 by editing /etc/inittab again.

Did a bit of tinkering and got the following performance out of glxgears: 720 frames in 5.4 sec = 133 FPS.
Doesn't seem too impressive. fgl_glxgears causes a segmentation fault and exits. Dragging windows around the screen, I see a distinct lag between when I drag something and when it finally gets to its location. But at least I'm not looking at a 1200x800 display.

==Tips and Tricks==
If you have SELinux enabled and set to enforcing you may need to change the context of the fglrx_dri.so file for it to load properly:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so

Substitute lib with lib64 where appropriate.

Tip for Centos 5.4 x86_64 kernel 2.6.18+
Before installing the driver package it is absolutely vital to ensure that version/build number in /lib/modules/{your kernel build}/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h number is EXACTLY the same as the output of uname -r

for example
uname-r
2.6.18-164.el5
cat /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.18-164.'''1.15'''.el5"

fglrx.ko will NOT be built and installed properly due to the discrepancy (1.15) in utsrelease.h.

In most cases modifying utsrelease.h solves the problem

==Related Resources==
[http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html Follow link "ATI Driver Installer"]

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Hardware

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= Officially Supported (Catalyst & Open Source) =
The following hardware is supported by current releases of the Catalyst/fglrx driver. Open source drivers will work as well. Note that RadeonHD 6xx0 chips will need kernel 2.6.38 for open-source mode-setting, xf86-video-ati/radeon 6.14.0 for 2D acceleration (EXA/Xv), and Mesa 7.11 for 3D acceleration.

* R600 Radeon HD 2900
* RV610/RV630 Radeon HD 2400/2600, M71, M72, M74, M76
* RV620 Radeon HD 3450/3470, M82
* RV635 Radeon HD 3650/3670, M86
* RV670 Radeon HD 3850/3870, M88
* RS780 Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300
* RS880 Radeon HD 4100/4200/4290
* RV710 Radeon HD 4350/4550, M92
* RV730 Radeon HD 4650/4670, M96
* RV770 Radeon HD 4850/4870, M97, M98
* CEDAR Radeon HD 5450
* REDWOOD Radeon HD 5550/5570/5670
* JUNIPER Radeon HD 5730/5750/5770
* CYPRESS Radeon HD 5830/5850/5870
* HEMLOCK Radeon HD 5970
* PALM Radeon HD 6310/6250
* BARTS Radeon HD 6850/6870
* CAICOS Radeon HD 6350/6450
* TURKS Radeon HD 6670
* CAYMAN Radeon HD 6950/6970 (requires Catalyst 11.4b; open-source requires kernel 2.6.39)

= Old Radeon Legacy (Open Source) =
These cards are no longer actively supported by AMD as of the 8.28.8 fglrx driver. Unless you run an ancient distro, using the open source drivers is your only option.

* R100 Radeon 7200
* RV100 Radeon 7000(VE), M6, RN50/ES1000
* RS100 Radeon IGP320(M)
* RV200 Radeon 7500, M7, FireGL 7800
* RS200 Radeon IGP330(M)/IGP340(M)
* RS250 Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
* R200 Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
* RV250 Radeon 9000PRO/9000, M9
* RV280 Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE/9250, M9+
* RS300 Radeon 9100 IGP
* RS350 Radeon 9200 IGP

= Radeon (Catalyst Legacy & Open Source) =

ATI/AMD dropped Catalyst support for these cards in Catalyst 9-4. These cards are supported with the legacy ATI 9-3 Catalyst release, but you MUST use a kernel 2.6.28 (or earlier) and Xserver 1.5 (or earlier). For example, you can use Catalyst 9-3 if you're running [http://www.mycaal.com/loan modification] Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny/5.0. Open source support is good and 3D is still improving.

* RS400/RS480 Radeon XPRESS 200(M)/1100 IGP
* R300 Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500/9600TX, FireGL X1/Z1
* R350 Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2
* R360 Radeon 9800XT
* RV350 Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600/9550, M10/M11, FireGL T2
* RV360 Radeon 9600XT
* RV370 Radeon X300, M22
* RV380 Radeon X600, M24
* RV410 Radeon X700, M26 PCIE
* R420 Radeon X800 AGP
* R423/R430 Radeon X800, M28 PCIE
* R480/R481 Radeon X850 PCIE/AGP
* RS482 Radeon (Xpress) 200
* RV505 Radeon X1300, M52, M62
* RV515 Radeon X1400, M54, M64
* RV516 Radeon X1500
* RV550 Radeon X2300
* R520 Radeon X1800, M58
* RV530/RV560 Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700, M56, M66
* RV570/R580 Radeon X1900/X1950, M68
* RS600/RS690 Radeon (Xpress) X1200/X1250/X1270
* RS740 Radeon X2100
* FireGL T2 (4154)
* FireGL V3100 (5B64)
* FireGL V3200 (3E54)
* FireGL V3300 (5E49)
* FireGL V5000 (5E48)
* FireGL V5100 (5551)
* FireGL V7100 (5550)
* FireGL X1 (4E47)
* FireGL X2-256/X2-256t (4E4B)
* FireGL X3-256 (4A4D)
* FireGL Z1 (4147)