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Fedora 21 Installation Guide

2015-03-14T08:12:26Z

73.208.13.153: moved cd line to more sensible location

= AMD CATALYST-14.12 FOR GNOME AND KDE ENVIRONMENT =

==First off this is still a work in progress! and not a walk in the park! but it works very good and is stable.==
==This part is for '''KDE & GNOME'''==

* '''fully update your system and make sure your running kernel 3.18+ '''
* '''install pre-requisite packages:
yum install gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel
mkdir catalyst{{Catalystversion}} && cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}
wget <nowiki>--referer='http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86' http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-catalyst-omega-</nowiki>{{Catalystversion}}-linux-run-installers.zip
unzip amd-catalyst-omega-{{Catalystversion}}-linux-run-installers.zip

* '''now we need to extract the installer in order to patch "kcl_acpi.c" '''
cd fglrx
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
now using gedit or whatever text editor open /catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c
at '''line 834''' replace

'''#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)'''

by

'''#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)'''

save it somewhere and then replace it whit yours

==This next part is for '''KDE ONLY'''==

cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}/catalyst
sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install
and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME'''==
cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}/catalyst
sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install
===do not reboot after the installation===
Now the problem is that even though aticonfig will work, the libglx.so and fglrx_drv.so blobs provided by AMD are broken. They won’t work with GDM and Xserver 1.16.

to fix it open terminal and copy & past '''one line at the time'''
cd /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/
Xorg -version > /amd_xversion 2>&1
offset=`strings -td fglrx_drv.so | grep '/proc/%i/fd/0' | sed 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
echo -ne '/amd_xversion' | dd conv=notrunc of=fglrx_drv.so bs=1 count=13 seek=$offset

cd ..
cd /extensions/
offset=`strings -td libglx.so | grep '/proc/%i/fd/0' | sed 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
echo -ne '/amd_xversion' | dd conv=notrunc of=libglx.so bs=1 count=13 seek=$offset
last part is to '''Assist Clutter in recognizing the OpenGL version'''

open gedit and edit /etc/profile
at the bottom add those following line

export COGL_DRIVER=gl

export COGL_OVERRIDE_GL_VERSION=1.4

export COGL_RENDERER=GLX

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/fglrx/fglrx-libGL.so.1.2

gnome-session

===save it replace it ===

Now we need to switch from GDM to lightdm in order to login {will be fix soon )
dnf install lightdm
systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable lightdm
and now you can '''finally reboot'''===

==FlashPlayer HW Acceleration using Firefox==
This only applies to Firefox and other NPAPI-compatible web browsers not Pepper Flash included in Chrome.'''KDE user must uninstall pepper and re-intall Flash'''

Add RPM Fusion Repo '''right-click Open link in new tab''' and install it.

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-21.noarch.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-21.noarch.rpm

This next part will provide a generic VDPAU library. It uses OpenGL under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and VA-API (if available) to accelerate video decoding.
yum install gstreamer1-vaapi.x86_64 libvdpau-va-gl.x86_64
now open text editor and add this line '''export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl'''

to

'''/etc/profile''' at the end just above export COGL_DRIVER=gl

and reboot! voila

enjoy gang!

winglman

Fedora 21 Installation Guide

2015-03-14T08:03:58Z

73.208.13.153: Added directory changing

= AMD CATALYST-14.12 FOR GNOME AND KDE ENVIRONMENT =

==First off this is still a work in progress! and not a walk in the park! but it works very good and is stable.==
==This part is for '''KDE & GNOME'''==

* '''fully update your system and make sure your running kernel 3.18+ '''
* '''install pre-requisite packages:
yum install gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel
mkdir catalyst{{Catalystversion}} && cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}
wget <nowiki>--referer='http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86' http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-catalyst-omega-</nowiki>{{Catalystversion}}-linux-run-installers.zip
unzip amd-catalyst-omega-{{Catalystversion}}-linux-run-installers.zip
cd fglrx
* '''now we need to extract the installer in order to patch "kcl_acpi.c" '''
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
now using gedit or whatever text editor open /catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c
at '''line 834''' replace

'''#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)'''

by

'''#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)'''

save it somewhere and then replace it whit yours

==This next part is for '''KDE ONLY'''==

cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}/catalyst
sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install
and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME'''==
cd catalyst{{Catalystversion}}/catalyst
sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install
===do not reboot after the installation===
Now the problem is that even though aticonfig will work, the libglx.so and fglrx_drv.so blobs provided by AMD are broken. They won’t work with GDM and Xserver 1.16.

to fix it open terminal and copy & past '''one line at the time'''
cd /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/
Xorg -version > /amd_xversion 2>&1
offset=`strings -td fglrx_drv.so | grep '/proc/%i/fd/0' | sed 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
echo -ne '/amd_xversion' | dd conv=notrunc of=fglrx_drv.so bs=1 count=13 seek=$offset

cd ..
cd /extensions/
offset=`strings -td libglx.so | grep '/proc/%i/fd/0' | sed 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
echo -ne '/amd_xversion' | dd conv=notrunc of=libglx.so bs=1 count=13 seek=$offset
last part is to '''Assist Clutter in recognizing the OpenGL version'''

open gedit and edit /etc/profile
at the bottom add those following line

export COGL_DRIVER=gl

export COGL_OVERRIDE_GL_VERSION=1.4

export COGL_RENDERER=GLX

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/fglrx/fglrx-libGL.so.1.2

gnome-session

===save it replace it ===

Now we need to switch from GDM to lightdm in order to login {will be fix soon )
dnf install lightdm
systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable lightdm
and now you can '''finally reboot'''===

==FlashPlayer HW Acceleration using Firefox==
This only applies to Firefox and other NPAPI-compatible web browsers not Pepper Flash included in Chrome.'''KDE user must uninstall pepper and re-intall Flash'''

Add RPM Fusion Repo '''right-click Open link in new tab''' and install it.

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-21.noarch.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-21.noarch.rpm

This next part will provide a generic VDPAU library. It uses OpenGL under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and VA-API (if available) to accelerate video decoding.
yum install gstreamer1-vaapi.x86_64 libvdpau-va-gl.x86_64
now open text editor and add this line '''export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl'''

to

'''/etc/profile''' at the end just above export COGL_DRIVER=gl

and reboot! voila

enjoy gang!

winglman