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| howtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2015/05/26 09:06 (UTC)] – added information for getting ati driver to work on recent slackware version. tim | howtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2015/07/02 09:48 (UTC)] – [AMD (ATI) Catalyst Driver Installation and Configuration] tim | ||
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| - | Have a look at the first few lines of output to see if DRI is enabled. If it is not, then you need to do a bit more work, because the package creation built into the ati installer is quite old (pre official 64bit Slackware) and some files need to be moved around to make it work on the 14.1 version of Slackware. A package for slackbuilds.org that fixes the problem is being worked on, but in the meantime you can try a manual solution posted [[http:// | + | Have a look at the first few lines of output to see if DRI is enabled. If it is not, then you need to do a bit more work, because the package creation built into the ati installer is quite old (pre official 64bit Slackware) and some files need to be moved around to make it work on the 14.1 version of Slackware. A package for slackbuilds.org that fixes the problem is being worked on, but in the meantime you can try a manual solution posted [[http:// |
| === Automatic un-install ==== | === Automatic un-install ==== | ||
