Fedora 16 Installation Guide

FEDORA 16 Installation

• Download latest driver from ATI/AMD (minimum 11.11)
• Start software manager and install:

  kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc gcc-c++

• 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

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,

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