Fedora 9 Installation Guide
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General Status
- Uses kernel 2.6
- Uses Xorg 7
- Use of the ATI driver requires self build of rpm package + ubuntu tarbal
- weak perfomance wrost 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 [1]
- 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
- cp -rv fglx/x740/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules
Issues
Current driver releases do not build on Fedora 9 without patching, and the resulting RPM packages crash the X server. Downgrading X and installing a older ATI driver release is an option. Rumor has it that a upcoming Fedora 9/Mesa 7.2 update will fix the ATI Catalyst issues. It is due out in a matter of weeks.
