[lug] AMD Catalyst Display Driver

[Maxwell Spangler]

I run the ATI Catalyst drivers on Fedora and they work pretty good.

1) Boot to multi-user mode

2) Login as root

3) Run the installer

4) Reboot

is the simplest way to do things.

I'm doing this on Fedora and my only complaint is that if I upgrade the
kernel, after rebooting the kernel, I'll often get a black screen
because the driver's compiled modules don't match up with what the new
kernel wants.  The solution to this is to simply go to an alternate
console (ALT-F3, etc), login as root in text mode, resinstall the driver
(in text mode) then reboot again and all is fixed.

Try again and give us more information. You should be able to get this
working without buying new cards.

Moving away from RHEL5 would be a really good start.



On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:53 -0600, Steven Hart wrote:
> Well I thought I had it figured out until the latest kernel was
> updated.  
> 
> I know you have to reload the kernel modules each time a new kernel is
> loaded but now the ati install won't run right.
> 
> On first boot, I brought the system up in single user mode and ran the
> installer.  It ran normally and finished.  I then let the system come
> up fully and had accelerated graphics running normally.  Proceeded to
> fully update the box  (which included a new kernel).  On reboot, I
> went into single user again and tried to run the installer to make the
> new kernel module but it's complaining about permissions in the bin
> directory.
> 
> So right now I'm frustrated and don't want to deal with this anymore.
> Why does ATI make this such a pain in the ass while nvidia makes it
> relatively easy?
> 
> I'm tempted to buy 20 cheap nvidia cards and forget this ATI mess.
> 
> Any suggestions for making these ATI cards work from kernel to kernel
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 06/23/2011 04:46 PM, Collins Richey wrote: 
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Steven Hart <shart at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > Please disregard.  I figured it out.
> > > 
> > > sorry to bother everyone, it's been one of those days!
> > > 
> > It's always helpful if you tell "the rest of the story".
> > 
> 
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> Steve Hart
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