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12.4 Drivers fail due to not supporting the version of Xorg released with Fedora 17 - buy nvidia, I wish I had. I've tried using my 6870 with fedora 16 and 17 and have never been able to get the official driver to work.  At the moment after installing in fedora 17 I get a segmentation fault.  Why aren't later versions of Xorg supported? why isn't amds linux support as good as nvidias?
Note:  12.9 BETA minimum !!!For kernel 3.4.* and up


nvidia has better linux drivers because it places more importance on the workstation graphic market than AMD
This section applies directly to users using the Official amd-driver-installer package downloaded from amd.com
 
=== Installation Prep for Amd-Driver-Installer ===
 
The script from AMD builds the kernel module and a set of modules for XOrg. The Official AMD installer requires some development packages to be installed:
 
<pre>
su -
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc gcc-c++
</pre>
 
 
=== Download driver ===
 
Download the driver for your particular card from http://support.amd.com/
 
 
  wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-{{catalystdashversion}}-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
  unzip amd-{{catalystdashversion}}-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
 
=== Install driver ===
 
Run the file as root in the ''sh'' shell.
 
  su
  sh amd-driver-installer-{{catalystdashversion}}-linux-x86.x86_64.run
 
 
Select the default install, do not generate distribution packages.
 
Click "check log" when install finish
 
=== GENERATE DEFAULT CONFIG ===
 
 
  su
  sh aticonfig --initial
 
 
REBOOT
 
===To Uninstall===
Open terminal,SU to get root,type:
 
  sh /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh
 
 
Video playback
 
Add rpm-fusion repositories (free and non-free) via firefox
 
    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
    open with Archive manager and install,this will provide extra video-codec like H-264,ac3,xvid,mp4....
 
Good luck,
 
winglman
 
knowledge is free, so share it!

Latest revision as of 18:46, 5 July 2013

Note: 12.9 BETA minimum !!!For kernel 3.4.* and up

This section applies directly to users using the Official amd-driver-installer package downloaded from amd.com

Installation Prep for Amd-Driver-Installer

The script from AMD builds the kernel module and a set of modules for XOrg. The Official AMD installer requires some development packages to be installed: 

su -
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc gcc-c++


Download driver

Download the driver for your particular card from http://support.amd.com/ 


  wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-15-12-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
  unzip amd-15-12-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

Install driver

Run the file as root in the sh shell. 

  su
  sh amd-driver-installer-15-12-linux-x86.x86_64.run


Select the default install, do not generate distribution packages.

Click "check log" when install finish

GENERATE DEFAULT CONFIG

  su
  sh aticonfig --initial


REBOOT

To Uninstall

Open terminal,SU to get root,type: 

  sh /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh


Video playback

Add rpm-fusion repositories (free and non-free) via firefox 

   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
   open with Archive manager and install,this will provide extra video-codec like H-264,ac3,xvid,mp4....

Good luck,

winglman

knowledge is free, so share it!

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