installing ATI driver problems for AMD64

[blastradius 0]

Can anyone tell me how to run the installer program from ATI. I've downloaded the actual driver RPM (although i had to do it from my Windows partition and drag it across because none of my browsers would link to the driver page), and i've downloaded the installer program. According to the instructions i should type;-

 

./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.mun

 

and this would start a nice install front-end, all i get though is "permission denied" although i'm running as root. I've got the driver and installer in the same folder and i'm stuck as to what to do next.

I'm using Mandrake for the AMD64 and i'm trying to install the x.org driver for my ATI Radeon 9600.

 

Please help as i can't live without Neverwinter nights and i've had it running under Linux but the lack of 3D makes it unplayable.

 

If i do an RPM -i on the driver itself i get;-

 

file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx64_6_8_0-8.14.13-1 conflicts with file from package libxorg-x11-6.7.0-3mdk

 

please help

 

[danleff 0]

First of all, from the ATI Linux driver faq page;

 

Quote:

What computer architectures are supported by this driver?

 

A3: Systems using 32-bit processors from Intel (Pentium III and later) and AMD (Athlon and later) are currently supported. 64-bit drivers are under development, and should be available in a future release. PowerPC, Alpha, and others are not currently supported.

 

You seem to be trying to do 2 different things. Are you trying to install the run package, or the rpm driver package?

 

They are two different driver sets.

 

According to the faq page 64 bit drivers are still under development.

 

Does anyone have more information on this?

 

[egorgry 0]

The script needs to be made executable. chmod +x filename. If you do an ll in that diresctory it will most likely report that the file is rw-rw-r-- when it should be at least rwx------ That's all I got. sorry, I'm an nvidia guy.

 

[lanix 0]

The best way to install the ATI driver is by running it with sh, for example:

[root@localhost ~]# sh ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.mun

[egorgry 0]

Originally posted by lanix:

Quote:

The best way to install the ATI driver is by running it with sh, for example:

[root@localhost ~]# sh ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.mun

 

If you know it's a shell script that will work. If it's perl or something else it will return an error. I don't know what ATI uses but if you wnat to try sh instead of teh permissions it won't hurt anything and will most likely work just as well.