Fedora 9 Installation Guide: Difference between revisions
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* sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-c.....rpm | * sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-c.....rpm | ||
* untar [http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/ | * untar [http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/restricted/f/fglrx-installer/fglrx-installer_8.543.orig.tar.gz fglxrx-8.543] | ||
* sudo cp -rv fglx/x740/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules | * sudo cp -rv fglx/x740/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules | ||
Revision as of 21:09, 29 October 2008
General Status
- Uses kernel 2.6
- Uses Xorg 7
- Use of the ATI driver requires self build of rpm package + ubuntu tarball
- weak performance worst then radeon/radeonhd drivers
Installation Option #1 Downgrade X and use the Livna repository
See the Fedora 9 FGLRX HOWTO
Installation Option #2 Local RPM Build
Releases through Catalyst 8.9 do not work on Fedora 9 without extensive patching/downgrading. See the Catalyst 8.4 - 8.9 failures
Installation Option #3 Ubuntu tarball
- Download 8.542 package fglrx-8.542
- sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8-10-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/F9
- sudo rpm -ivh kernel....rpm
- sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-8.....rpm
- sudo rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx-c.....rpm
- untar fglxrx-8.543
- sudo cp -rv fglx/x740/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules
Issues
weak perfomance
