CentOS6.4 Installing ATI graphics card Drivers

Desktop Mount CentOS 6.4 x86_64-bit integrated graphics ati4290

On The release notes for CentOS :

The proprietary drivers for older AMD (former ATI) video cards, namely the 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx serie S (both integrated in motherboards or standalone cards) is not compatible with the new version of the X server introduce D in CentOS-6.4. As of mid-march known workaround allowing the use of the proprietary drivers are to downgrade the X server ( xorg* packages) to the versions available in CentOS 6.3. More details on the extensive investigation around this issue are available here. Make sure this you does not allow Yum to upgrade again the packages that has been downgraded by adding the following to the End of/etc/yum.conf exclude=xorg* Note that use of proprietary drivers is never needed for CentOS-6 if all you wanted W As a dual-monitor setup. See this FAQ entry for more details on using a dual-monitor setup.

turns out The CentOS 6.4 version does not support ATI 's 2xxx,3xxx,4xxx series of graphics cards at the beginning.

But what about the upgrade to 6.4? Only need to reduce the version of Xorg to the version of the 6.3 version of the system.

Fastest source (DVD version comes with fastestmirror)

Shell Code

Yum Install Yum-fastestmirror Yum-presto

Development Tools (ready to install the graphics card)

Shell Code

Yum Groupinstall "Development Tools"

Rpmfusion Source

1. Download EPEL:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

2. Rpmfusion:http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

3. Installation

downgrade Xorg

Shell Code

1. Yum Remove xorg-x11-drv-modesetting

2. Yum--disablerepo=\*--enablerepo=c6.3\* downgrade xorg\*

3. Yum--disablerepo=\*--enablerepo=c6.3\* Install Xorg-x11-drivers

Prevent Xorg is updated again

Edit /etc/yum.conf add exclude=xorg*

Install the video card to drive the necessary dependencies

Shell Code

Yum install libx11.i686 libxext.i686 glibc.i686 libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-33

Episode Install video driver pre-test

#glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
Approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
Frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.887 FPS
Frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.897 FPS

Download driver http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Unzip the website

after Amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

Amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Sh./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run--extract ATI

CD ati/

./packages/redhat/ati-packager.sh--buildpkg rhel6_64a

#RHEL6_64a是安装64位的, hold on a second.

Cd..

RPM IVH fglrx64_p_i_c-8.97.100.7-1.x86_64.rpm can't go on

RPM-IVH fglrx64_p_i_c-8.97.100.7-1.x86_64.rpm--force–nodeps #忽略依赖性, forced installation

Aticonfig--initial
Reboot

$ fglrxinfo

Display:: 0.0 screen:0

OpenGL Vendor string:advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

OpenGL renderer String:ati Radeon HD 4290

OpenGL version string:3.3.11672 compatibility profile Context

$ glxgears

17120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3423.951 FPS

17202 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3440.250 FPS

17195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3438.985 FPS

17199 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3439.799 FPS

17194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3438.707 FPS

17203 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3440.470 FPS

Reference http://turnip-gray.iteye.com/blog/1895406

I installed the computer for Win7 and CentOS dual system, if the restart can not come out of the interface, ctrl+alt+f3 into the command line interface, STARTX boot, look at the problem prompt

CentOS6.4 Installing ATI graphics card Drivers