ATI catalyst and Fedora 15

[Nirjhor]

Hello,

I previously used fedora 14 and followed this guide there to install ATI catalyst driver: HERE (upto step 13) and it worked like a charm.

Now today while binging I found this: http://fedora.missingbox.co.nz/ and here it says I need to do :

yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i686

to install ATI driver.

Now questions are:

1. Will the old method work too?
2. Is the later method for both 32 and 64 bits?
3. Which one should I try?

Any suggestion would be of great help. And no, open source drivers don't work out well with my card. I'm currently downloading Fedora 15 GNOME.

[leigh123linux]

There is a lot of screen corruption using this driver with Gnome 3.

Here's a current guide.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503

[Firewing1]

If you have RPM Fusion installed, you can install the pre-packaged RPMs and you don't have to worry about building the drivers manually with each kernel release.

yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst

Use this if you want to install the akmod (your system will install many development tools so that it can build new kmods automatically when new kernels come out)

yum install kmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst

Use this to install the pre-built kmod. Quickest and easiest, and does not require development tools but you may have to wait a day or two when a new kernel comes out before updating so that RPM Fusion can publish the corresponding kmod for the new kernel.

yum install xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i686

In either case, use this to install the 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system.

Edit: Ah, Leigh got to it first. His guide works well (it's essentially what I posted above plus a few extra fixes).

[xtachx]

Well, this doesnt work since the kernel versions dont match. The latest fedora kernel is a few revisions AHEAD of the rpmfusion kmod.

However, the akmod installs fine. IT doesn work though - xserver fails to start.


The present ATi Propretory divers do work - compiz works, but glxgears gives 60 FPS. (i am using RadeonHD 5700)


Edit: this is exactly what I see: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=263632

[esbennn]

I am having the same problem. Both akmod and kmod install just fine, but provide major graphic glithces in gnome shell, and provide extremely poor performance when running any graphical application.

I also tried downloading the .run installer from ati's site, but that just prevented gnome shell from starting in anything but fallback mode, which sucks.

Hopefully there will soon be a fix to this

[Firewing1]

There's a bug in the AMD driver that's causing that, so it doesn't matter if you use the .run or the RPM Fusion package... Unfortunately the only workaround at the moment (until AMD fixes their driver) is to force fallback mode or to use the open drivers.

[Frenzel]

In otherwords, we need to wait for a fix, right?

[Evil-I]

Shock horror, the catalyst drivers still don't work......

I wish AMD/ATI would pul thier finger out.

E-I

[xtachx]

Heres my thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266144

It has a screenshot of my desktop. The driver seems to be OK - every other DE like KDE, enlightenment etc works fine. I d k who to blame, ATi or Gnome3?

[elkoraco]

So, what's the deal, nobody got stuff working with Gnome Shell plus Catalyst or the RMPFusion drivers? I tried to load the drivers in F15 and Ubuntu's version of Gnome 3 via ppa, and got the same results as people here.

[Archytas]

I have the same results with the AMD Catalyst 11.8 driver from a few days ago. Still awaiting a solution.
Do we already know it is due to Gnome or due to the driver? It is a bit strange that it only applies to the Gnome3 top bar. Does it do anything special? Might there be a setting to make it more basic maybe to lose these stripes?

[janvlug]

Apparently the fix is in hand: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99#c59

[Archytas]

That sounds good. Although it might take one or two months more before we can download it given their release cycle.

[ffmaniac]

hey all im not sure if this is another problem happening, but for me the UI in G3 runs quite choppy. either i didnt install the drivers properly (im a noob to anything linux) or the drivers just plain suck or maybe G3 needs improvement who knows. when i had the open drivers installed everything was silky smooth.

[Bad2theBone]

Does anyone know if there is a problem with the 64 bit version of the lib files? I only see references to i686 in all guides and even mention that it'll work on x86_64 systems. I was not able to get it to load properly with the x86_64 lib file so I wound up removing it. I want to know if I should use the 32bit version or it doesn't matter?