Wednesday, June 9, 2010

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx Series in Linux (kernel 2.6.34)

The aim of this writting is to show how I got to install the ATI driver in Linux, using kernel 2.6.34.

First of all, I tried to download the driver from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML. Although there is not any driver for 5xxx series, we can use the 4xxx series driver: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.32&lang=English

After downloaded the driver I gave execution permissions to the driver and just in case, put out xserver:

$ chmod +x ati-driver-installer-10-5-x86.x86_64.run
$/etc/init.d/gdm stop