Newbie Ati driver question

[kaizer]

Hi just installed Fedora used Pclinuxos before wanted to try somthing new and so far i like fedora a lot
But i would like to install a faster ati driver i had better gaming performance driver in pclinux.
Is there a easy way to do this i had read some tortourials but it looks way to difficault for me to do.
In Pclinux and ubuntu these drivers could be installed directly from synatic package manager is something like that possible in fedora ?

[ppesci]

Yes, you must to have a livna repository. You must install kmod-fglrx using yum:

yum install kmod-fglrx

and reboot the machine.

You can use Yumex or Pirut for the same purpose.

Edit: BTW: Welcome to this forum

HTH

[kaizer]

Okey i did this [root@localhost ...]# yum install kmod-fglrx
Loading "protectbase" plugin
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package kmod-fglrx available.
Is the driver file missing here ? ,

[ppesci]

You must install the livna repository. In a terminal as root type:

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

and retry

yum install kmod-fglrx

HTH

[kaizer]

i Forgot say that i use the Fedora 8 Release Candidate I tried http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm but it dosent work., thanks for trying to help

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by kaizer

i Forgot say that i use the Fedora 8 Release Candidate I tried http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm but it dosent work., thanks for trying to help

try


su
yum --disablerepo=livna --enablerepo=livna-development install kmod-fglrx

[kaizer]

Thanks but now i got another error message

root@localhost ...]# yum --disablerepo=livna --enablerepo=livna-development install kmod-fglrx
Loading "protectbase" plugin


Error getting repository data for livna, repository not found

[kaizer]

i installed fedora 7.0 now to see if its easier to get this to work

now i get this error
yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit
Loading "protectbase" plugin
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 00:19
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit available.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:8.42.3-4.2.6.23.1_21.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 for package: kmod-fglrx
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 0:8.42.3-6.lvn7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: livna-config-display >= 0.0.18 for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.5 for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Processing Dependency: livna-config-display for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:8.42.3-4.2.6.23.1_21.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 for package: kmod-fglrx
---> Package livna-config-display.noarch 0:0.0.19-1.lvn7 set to be updated
---> Package compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-61 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 is needed by package kmod-fglrx

[ppesci]

Oops, sounds like you will have to wait until fedora repository be updated. Wait some time maybe you can wait until tomorrow, and try again

[kaizer]

Hey i fixed it problem was i had not iinstalled the ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run i just thought i had.
This driver is so much better, but it should have been default driver.
But thanks for helping me out great forum

[ppesci]

Not the default because is propietary. Nice you solved the problem

[skkeeper]

When I'm following the ati/compiz tutorial it says that the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit package isnt found.

I installed the livna repository correctly so i cant understand whats happening

PS: I'm using the new Fedora 8

[ppesci]

Try as root:

yum install kmod-fglrx

reboot

HTH