Sunday, February 9, 2014

How To Install Legacy Catalyst ATI Drivers 13.1 in CentOS 6.5


Steps: 1. Downgrade Xorg
$ yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=C6.3\* downgrade xorg\*
$ yum remove xorg-x11-drv-modesetting xorg-x11-drivers
$ yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-drv*
2. Install epel repository info
$ yum install http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
3. Install the drivers
$ yum -y install kmod-fglrx-legacy.x86_64 --enablerepo=elrepo-testing
4. Disable updates for specific packages
$ grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-server-common xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-drv* kmod-fglrx* fglrx*x11-drv 
5. Reboot!
$ reboot

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