{"id":31,"date":"2018-11-12T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-11-12T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:24:41","slug":"how-to-build-and-install-ati-video-cards-fedora-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/how-to-build-and-install-ati-video-cards-fedora-20\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build and install ATI video cards Fedora 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current ATI catalyst driver does not install on Fedora 20. I needs to patched in order to be installed successfully. Here are the how to instructions for building the beta ATI driver for the following:<\/p>\n<p>OS: Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)<br \/>\nArchitecture: x86_64 (64-bit)<br \/>\nX Server: XServer 1.14.4<br \/>\nKernel: 3.16.2-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 8 11:54:45 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure your kernel devel and headers are installed:<\/strong><br \/>\nyum install kernel-devel kernel-headers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next download the latest ATI driver:<\/strong><br \/>\ncd \/tmp<br \/>\nwget \u2013referer=http:\/\/support.amd.com http:\/\/www2.ati.com\/drivers\/beta\/linux-amd-catalyst-14.6-beta-v1.0-jul11.zip<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now unzip and extract the run binary:<\/strong><br \/>\nunzip linux-amd-catalyst-14.6-beta-v1.0-jul11.zip<br \/>\ncd fglrx-14.20\/<br \/>\n.\/amd-driver-installer-14.20-x86.x86_64.run \u2013extract patched<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once the run binary is extracted, we need to download and patch firegl_public.c:<\/strong><br \/>\ncd \/tmp\/fglrx-14.20\/patched\/common\/lib\/modules\/fglrx\/build_mod<br \/>\nwget http:\/\/devgurus.amd.com\/servlet\/JiveServlet\/download\/1304255-7665\/firegl_public_c.patch.zip<br \/>\nunzip firegl_public_c.patch.zip<br \/>\npatch -u &lt; firegl_public_c.patch\u00a0<strong>Once the firegl_public.c is patched, then run the following to make it as root or using sudo:<\/strong><br \/>\n.\/make.sh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once built, go to the following directory and install everything:<\/strong><br \/>\ncd \/lib\/modules\/fglrx<br \/>\nmake install<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everything should successfully install. Reboot and enjoy a working desktop. Remember, run the following to bring up the catalyst configuration tool:<\/strong><br \/>\namdcccle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current ATI catalyst driver does not install on Fedora 20. I needs to patched in order to be installed successfully. Here are the how to instructions for building the beta ATI driver for the following: OS: Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit) X Server: XServer 1.14.4 Kernel: 3.16.2-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddog187.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}