AMD Testing use only watermark in Fedora 18

[ravenfrost]

Just did an upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and now on the desktop i have a watermark that says:

"AMD testing use only"

What is this? How do i remove it?

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I saw on AMDs page that they had released a new version of their driver so i downloaded it and was trying to install it, but it said that fglrx drivers was still found on the system?

But the thing is, i had removed them before running AMDs installer but still the installer said the drivers was found on the system?

So how do i install AMDs driver installation from AMDs page?

I have a AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series card.

[Fenrin]

which driver did you install the one from the support.amd.com site or are you using the rpmfusion driver?

in the rpmfusion repo there is only the beta driver available currently. Then a way to solve the watermark issue would be:

su -c 'yum remove *catalyst*'

this just uninstalls the beta driver. But there is also another way to remove the watermark:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Amd_watermark
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...ware_Watermark

[ravenfrost]

which driver did you install the one from the support.amd.com site or are you using the rpmfusion driver?

in the rpmfusion repo there is only the beta driver available currently. Then a way to solve the watermark issue would be:

su -c 'yum remove *catalyst*'

this just uninstalls the beta driver. But there is also another way to remove the watermark:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Amd_watermark
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...ware_Watermark

I downloaded the 13.1 proprietary driver from AMDs page.
Now im using the rpmfusion driver again because i had problems installing the driver from AMDs page.

[Gregovsky]

Hello ravenfrost, I got same watermark logo and this from askubuntu.com help me remove it:

Put this in a text file and save it (call it fixwatermark.sh):

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

With terminal go to the location where you saved it and do a

chmod +x fixwatermark.sh

to make it executable and a

sudo ./fixwatermark.sh

and reboot

PS. make sure that path for DRIVER is correct for fglrx_drv.so (I must change it little bit)

[Nsession]

Hey guys hope this helps someone as it helped me. I had to mod the code a little due to having Fedora 19 (New Release) installed. The fglrx_drv.so file is located in a nice little place called modules/drivers. So here is the code: #!/bin/sh
DRIVER=`find /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ -name fglrx_drv.so`

echo “Come on AMD!”

for token in $DRIVER;do
echo “Removing AMD logo from “$token

for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk ‘/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print “\\x”$2″\\x”$3″\\x”$4″\\x”$5″\\x”$6}’Smilie: ; do
sed -i “s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g” $DRIVER
done
done

echo “Reboot computer to finish”