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Bug in current Catalyst legacy drivers (for Radeon HD 2000-4000 series)

(As of 2013-04-24) there is an error in the doinst.sh, after installpkg you see it displayed some lines above 'package successfully installed'.

To solve it:

1. sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.zip --buildpkg
2. mkdir temp ; cd temp
3. explodepkg ../fglrx-8.97.100.7-x86_64-1.tgz
4. emacs install/doinst.sh
5. change line 57 from "_USING_X=0" to "_USING_MODULE=0", save and exit
6. makepkg ../fglrx-8.97.100.7-x86_64-1.tgz

then installpkg

Older comments

Could you wrap all the code snippets in the code tags (the AMD section)? The distinction between the code and your instructions might not be clear to a reader. Thank you — Marcin Herda 2012/09/24 01:02

Point taken, I hope you like it better now
Amit Ugol 2012/09/24 01:17

Thank you. It looks much cleaner now — Marcin Herda 2012/09/24 01:20

Please make following changes to wiki.

Configuration

I noticed that in Slackware 14.0, configuration files that used to be in /etc/modprobe.d directory are now located in /lib/modprobe.d/

Also found mistake in sentence “before doing so you do we need”

Thanks


Hello,

in Section “nVIDIA Driver Installation and Configuration” in the first sentence, the link to SlackBuilds.org are wrong. (You did forgot the 'd')
(Sorry for my bad english, it is not my mother tongue.)

regards Saburgin

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