How do I enable 3D support for my ATI Radeon card in Fedora?
(Updated 20 February 2009) A: RPM Fusion provides ATI driver RPMs that are designed especially for Fedora. NOTE: If you have nVidia drivers installed, you must un-install them before installing these ATI drivers. Here’s how to install them: • Make sure that you’re using my yum configuration from the installing software question. • Open a Terminal. • Become root: su – • Install the driver: yum install kmod-fglrx • Shut down X: init 3 • Log in as root. • Enable the driver: fglrx-config-display enable • Rebuild your kernel configuration (otherwise it may try to load a conflicting driver during boot): new-kernel-pkg –mkinitrd –update $(rpm -q –queryformat=”%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n” kernel | tail -n 1) • Reboot your machine: reboot If you have any trouble with the RPM Fusion RPMs, please report a bug to the RPM Fusion Bugzilla. • Q: How do I enable 3D support for my nVidia graphics card in Fedora? A: There are now nVidia driver RPMs provided by rpmfusion.org that are designed espe
RPM Fusion provides ATI driver RPMs that are designed especially for Fedora. NOTE: If you have nVidia drivers installed, you must un-install them before installing these ATI drivers. Here’s how to install them: • Make sure that you’re using my yum configuration from the installing software question. • Open a Terminal. • Become root: su – • Install the driver: yum install kmod-catalyst • Shut down X: init 3 • Log in as root. • Enable the driver: catalyst-config-display enable • Rebuild your kernel configuration (otherwise it may try to load a conflicting driver during boot) and add some new kernel arguments to work around conflicts between the Catalyst driver and Fedora: new-kernel-pkg –kernel-args=nomodeset –mkinitrd –dracut –update $(rpm -q –queryformat=”%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n” kernel | tail -n 1) • Reboot your machine: reboot If you have any trouble with the RPM Fusion RPMs, please report a bug to the RPM Fusion Bugzilla.
