Installing the AMD Catalyst (fglrx) driver on the latest Fedora release can sometimes be a challenge due to Fedora catering towards the open-source graphics drivers. Aug 24, 2010 Installing ATI Radeon card in existing Fedora 12. Installing ATI Radeon card in existing Fedora 12. Elektor Sdr Software there. Use the opensource driver in the default fedora install.

In this how to I will describe how to install ATI Radeon Drivers in Fedora 18. Fedora 18 fresh out and ATI latest driver version 13.1 dont support it. I also checked the older version i.e 12.8 and 12.6 but all of them unable to install on Fedora 18. In future they will provide right drivers for Fedora 18 but for now you can install akmod-catalyst beta driver from rpmfusion repository.

1) Preparation. After installing from Live image to hard driver, first update your kernel and then install Development Tools group to provide all necessary tools for your system. Dell Optiplex 280 Drivers For Windows 7. Thank you very much for these instructions Sohail. It’s a bad thing there are no official instructions for this and you basically have to look for help with Google on how to get the proprietary AMD drivers working on Fedora 18. However, your instructions did not work for me. The “new-kernel-pkg” command you give returns usage instructions for me, like: Usage: new-kernel-pkg [-v] [–mkinitrd] [–rminitrd] and so on.

I made sure to exactly copy what you wrote here and pasted it in my terminal. Even if this didn’t work, I decided to continue. Your aticonfig command didn’t work for me either, but aticonfig gave a message that I should run “aticonfig –initial” first. Dell Inspiron 660s Desktop Vga Drivers For Windows 7 32bit. I did so and rebooted, and everything worked fine. So basically all that was needed for me was “yum install akmod-catalyst” and “aticonfig –initial”, then reboot.

Now I still have that annoying “Testing use only” watermark in the lower right of my screen, but I’d like to point out there is a solution for that: •. I have recieved an identical error to Fraterneo’s post while trying to install the NVIDIA AKMOD Package, which came so highly recommended lol Running Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib64/audit from install of glibc-2.16-31.fc18.x86_64 conflicts with file from package audit-2.2.1-2.fc18.x86_64 Error Summary ————- Back to prompt I also got the same error as Hayden trying to remove using the provided command: [root@localhost user]# rpm -e –force audit rpm: only installation and upgrading may be forced So back to square one, no graphic drivers. Oddly enough–if anyone out there with this issue is always going with the ‘akmod’ version of your drivers (for nvidia, if ati has something like this akmod and kmod versions) I suggest kmod–I did successfully install that on my first attempt at getting drivers but switched because ak was suggested as easier to install lol I had to scrap that install of linux because I screwed something else up down the road, but kmod installed fine first try. I’d just rather use the community’s choice, akmod Please help! The 3 of us are looking for a solution •. [] Also, the system I’m using has a proprietary ATI/AMD graphics driver installed.