1)First, download the ATI Drivers (the ones for "XFree86 4.3.0" will work).
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html
2)Then, download the Fedora Core 2 patch (Updated 17 July 2004) for the ATI Drivers. (Thanks to micha on FedoraForum for posting the patch!) Save the patch to the /tmp directory.
fglrx-3.9.0-fc2-2.6.6.patch.gz
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3318
3)Open a Terminal, and become root:
su -
4)Make sure that kernel-sourcecode is installed:
yum install kernel-sourcecode
5)Stop the built-in ATI driver:
rmmod radeon
6)Install the ATI drivers:
rpm -Uvh --replacefiles fglrx-4.3.0-*.i386.rpm
7)Now, a slight fix for dual-processor users (if you're not sure, just do it anyway, it's harmless):
ln -s /usr/src/linux-`uname -r | sed s/smp$//` /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`
8)Now, we're going to patch the drivers to work with Fedora Core 2:
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
patch -p1 -i /tmp/fglrx-3.9.0-fc2-2.6.6.patch
9)Now we're going to build and install the module:
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh
10)Now, we want to close X, the graphical part of Linux, so we can set up the driver. Open a Terminal and type:
telinit 3
This will shut down X and you will have a "Login:" prompt.
11)Log in as root.
12)Now, we're going to set up the driver:
fglrxconfig
13)The ATI driver has now created a new configuration file. We have to make sure that X uses the new config file, not the old one:
cd /etc/X11
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak
ln -sf XF86Config-4 xorg.conf
14)And now we can start X again:
telinit 5
This should install the ATI Drivers for you and provide you with 3D ATI support. Enjoy! |