You are whining about the old driver ! ( the new drivers are worst ) , it needs patching for the 2.6.25 kernel and it also needs patching to build rpm,s
Taken from a old guide I wrote a couple of months ago
Patch and install the ATi driver
Log on as root. We are now ready to install the fglrx driver.
Download the ati installer and a make sure you have installed the build requirements .
Code:
su
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Legacy Software Development"
The fglrx driver is shipped in an executable archive called ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86-64.run. Normally the archive will extract the files and install the driver all in one go. We need to break up this procedure in order to modify the source code. So first we extraxt the files. For illustration purposes I use the work directory /usr/src/ati.
Code:
su
wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run
sh ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run --extract /usr/src/ati
Next we change into the work directory and apply the patch.
Code:
cd /usr/src/ati
wget http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/ati-fglrx-8-4-kernel-2.6.25.patch
patch -p0 < ati-fglrx-8-4-kernel-2.6.25.patch
Finally we continue the installation process as if nothing had happened. ( yeh right the friggin installer needed patching to build rpm's )
Code:
rm -f /usr/src/ati/packages/Fedora/ati-packager.sh
wget http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/ati-packager.sh -O /usr/src/ati/packages/Fedora/ati-packager.sh
chmod +x /usr/src/ati/packages/Fedora/ati-packager.sh
./ati-installer.sh 8.476 --buildpkg Fedora/F9
And install the rpm's
Code:
cd /usr/src/
rpm -ivh ATI-fglrx*rpm kernel-module-ATI-fglrx*rpm