Hi !
This afternoon I’ve managed to install the latest ATI drivers for my Acer TravelMate 5720G laptop.
The install procedure was a pain, after a few reboots and white screens (frozen screens after reboot and starting X).
Here are my tips:
1) If your pc freezes after installation, don’t worry. Just restart and press any key when the bootloader (grub in my case) is loading, then add to the boot parameters a new one, ’3′. If you add ’3′ as a parameter, the kernel will boot on text mode, and no more freezes. After that, you can edit your X configuration (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and restore the working one.
2) Install all the stuff required by the driver. You will notice the install procedure is trying to compile a kernel module, if you don’t have the gcc compiler, kernel headers, and other libs, i will fail (as seen on the log file).
3) Turn off SELINUX (yes, turn it of using the command echo 0 > /selinux/enforce as root
4) If you failed a previous installation, use uninstall script before trying to install the new one.
This is the driver that worked for me:
- https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-10-8-x86.x86_64.run
update – beware if you use a “yum upgrade” because you may need to recompile the module for your new kernel.
try a newer version if it exist and good luck !!