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Fedora 21 Installation Guide

2015-05-03T18:21:08Z

75.72.80.77:

= 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 patch cdbs dh-make dkms fakeroot xorg-x11-server-devel rpm-build pre-link
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

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

sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install

and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME & XFCE'''==
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.

NOTE: YOU MUST BE LOGGED INTO ROOT IN ORDER TO DO THIS CORRECTLY, SUDO DOESN'T WORK FOR THIS BY A DEFAULT INSTALLATION!

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

2015-05-03T09:56:42Z

75.72.80.77:

= 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 touch patch cdbs dh-make dkms fakeroot xorg-x11-server-devel rpm-build
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

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

sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install

and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME & XFCE'''==
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.

NOTE: YOU MUST BE LOGGED INTO ROOT IN ORDER TO DO THIS CORRECTLY, SUDO DOESN'T WORK FOR THIS BY A DEFAULT INSTALLATION!

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

2015-05-03T09:35:17Z

75.72.80.77:

= 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 touch patch cdbs dh-make dkms fakeroot xorg-x11-server-devel rpm-build
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

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

sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install

and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME & XFCE'''==
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

2015-05-03T09:25:22Z

75.72.80.77: Extra tools necessary to be downloaded so that installation doesn't fail on the majority of Fedora 21 installations.

= 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 touch patch cdbs dh-make dkms fakeroot xorg-x11-server-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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

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

sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install

and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME & XFCE'''==
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

2015-05-03T07:59:48Z

75.72.80.77: Removed the redundant change directory because you were already in the directory you need to execute this command.

= 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 touch patch
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

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

sh ati-installer.sh 14.501 --install

and reboot. your done!

==This funny part is for '''GNOME & XFCE'''==
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

2015-05-03T07:58:23Z

75.72.80.77:

= 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 touch patch
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

==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 & XFCE'''==
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

2015-05-03T07:54:37Z

75.72.80.77: Added "touch" and "patch" to the "yum" dependency list, it's not installed by default in Fedora 21.

= 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 touch patch
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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

==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

2015-05-03T07:48:37Z

75.72.80.77: changed the patch file names to match the file names created by the 'touch' command, otherwise it doesn't work, get a bash error.

= 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 a few files. '''
cd fglrx*
sh amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run --extract catalyst
cd catalyst

* '''Create the empty patch files'''
touch 3-{17,19}.patch

Edit the files with your favorite text editor and paste the contents below:

Contents of 3-17.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-09-23 10:42:10.000000000 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2014-11-13 16:44:23.187112123 -0500
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@

static acpi_status KCL_ACPI_Slot_No_Hotplug(KCL_ACPI_DevHandle handle, u32 lvl, void *data, void **rv)
{
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,7) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0)
struct acpi_device *tdev = NULL;
struct pci_dev *pdev = (struct pci_dev *)data;
int device = 0;

Contents of 3-19.patch
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:13:36.628837777 -0400
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2015-03-22 14:14:43.678029922 -0400
@@ -4816,8 +4816,8 @@
{
unsigned long orig_level;

- orig_level = __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
- __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel) = level;
+ orig_level = __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
+ __this_cpu_write(kasExecutionLevel, level);

return orig_level;
}
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@
*/
static unsigned long kas_GetExecutionLevel(void)
{
- return __get_cpu_var(kasExecutionLevel);
+ return __this_cpu_read(kasExecutionLevel);
}

/** \brief Type definition for kas_spin_lock() parameter */

* '''Patch the files'''
patch -p0 < 3-17.patch
patch -p0 < 3-19.patch

==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