I simply hope this will help somehow, it worked for me with my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro on the Fedora Core 2 :) You need kernel-source installed and you might also need to create a symlink to your /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/ or whatever your kernel version is in order to build the drivers correctly if your kernel name is different from the kernel-source folder name (i.e. 2.6.5-1.358-myker, 2.6.5-1.358custom or 2.6.5-1.358smp). 1. Download the two following patches : http://rambo.its.tudelft.nl/~ewald/patches/fglrx-3.7.6-fedora.patch http://www.kaseorg.com/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch 2. Download the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver from ati.com and install the corresponding rpm package : wget -c http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm 3. Change directory to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and patch : cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod sudo patch -p1 < /path/to/fglrx-3.7.6-fedora.patch sudo patch -p1 < /path/to/fglrx-3.7.6-regparm.patch 4. Build and install the kernel module : sudo sh make.sh cd .. sudo sh make_install.sh 5. Back up your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup 6. You now need to configure X : sudo fglrxconfig 7. Perform these last steps : cd /etc/X11/ sudo ln -sf XF86Config-4 xorg.conf cd /etc/X11/xkb/rules sudo ln -sf xorg xfree86 sudo ln -sf xorg.lst xfree86.lst sudo ln -sf xorg.xml xfree86.xml 8: Voilà, you can restart X and enjoy direct rendering ! ;) $ glxinfo |grep direct direct rendering: Yes Many thanks to FedoraForum.org and rage3d.com : http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread/t-2028.html http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33757007 Gabriel
