Installation of the ATI graphics driver under Fedora 18

I installed my Fedora 18 on my laptop, AMD Radeon 6600 M and 6700 M Series. This is the result detected after the driver is installed (I always thought it was 76 Series, because the label is so pasted, I did not expect it to be pitted.) Let's Talk About the installation steps in detail.

If the driver has been installed using the run file provided by AMD, uninstall and fix the Mesa Library:

Su-c 'yum reinstall mesa-libGL'

Setp 1: Update Kernel, Install kernel-devel

[Root @ fedora ~] $ Yum update kernel [root @ fedora ~] $ Yum install kernel-deve [root @ fedora ~] $ Yum install gcc

Step 2: Download Drivers

Download the ATI Catalyst? 9.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver from ATI/AMD website

Step 3: Install Drivers

Enter the terminal, find the directory where the driver is located, and decompress the file.

Unzip amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

Add execution permission

Sudo chmod + x amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Sudo./amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Sudo aticonfig -- initia

Step 4: Reboot

It is estimated that after you follow the above steps, the restart is basically a black screen. I installed the system no less than five times and finally found the root cause.

To disable KMS, edit the GRUB2 configuration file/etc/default/grub and add the nomodeset parameter to the existing variable. For example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX = "quiet rhgb nomodeset" and then run grub2-mkconfig-o/boot/grub2/grub. cfg to regenerate the configuration file.

I have done this on the basis of my predecessors and attached the link:

A good explanation.