Fedora 18 Installation Guide

FGLRX driver from RPM Fusion (this will auto update with kernel update)

• first update system

 su
 yum check-update
 yum update

• reboot

• in software manager enable "fedora 18 source\source-update"
• Install require stuff to get work properly

 su
 yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers wget

Add Rpm Fusion Repo

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-18.noarch.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-18.noarch.rpm

THE DRIVER

• This will provide the latest driver and Control Panel Cat-13.4/13.8

 su
 yum install akmod-catalyst

• if dependency check-out you will have to

interact by typing Y to install

• If all is good you need to rebuild the kernel. (NEED TO BE DONE EACH TIME AKMOD UPDATE HAPPEND FOR BEST RESULT)

Type this in the terminal

su
new-kernel-pkg --kernel-args=nomodeset --mkinitrd --dracut --update $(rpm -q --queryformat="%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" kernel | tail -n 1)

aticonfig --initial -f

• reboot