Fedora

Fedora is a free GNU/Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. It is not Red Hat, but has a similar history. Red Hat does use aspects of Fedora as an incubator for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. Please see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution guide for more Red Hat specific information.

General Status

• Repackaged by Thorsten Leemhuis and Matthias Saou.
• Official ATI binary package maintained by Phoronix.

Installation

• Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide
• Fedora Core 5 Installation Guide
• Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide
• Fedora 7 Installation Guide
• Fedora 8 Installation Guide
• Fedora 9 Installation Guide
• Fedora 10 Installation Guide
• Fedora 11 Installation Guide
• Fedora 12 Installation Guide
• Fedora 13 Installation Guide
• Fedora 14 Installation Guide

FEDORA 15 Installation

• Download latest driver from ATI/AMD (minimum 11.10)
• Start software manager and instal:

  kernel source,kernel dev,kernel headers,Gcc

• reboot
• Open terminal, SU to get root, cd into directory where "ati-driver-installer" is located, type:

  sh ati-driver-installer-*.run 

• Install default (do not generate distribution package)
• Go to /usr/share/ati and open fglrx-install.log, at the end you should see build succeeded with return value 0,duplicating results into driver repository...done. if so it's all good!
• In terminal type: aticonfig --initial
• reboot

Good luck, winglman

Related Resources

• RPMFusion RPM Repository - Fedora RPM Builds
• Fedora FAQ - Fedora FAQ