Catalyst

Catalyst™ 9.2 Linux Installer Note
The ATI Proprietary Linux Installer makes installing the ATI Proprietary Linux driver a much simpler and user friendly experience. The new ATI Proprietary Linux Installer provides two modes of installation. The Install Driver option provides a simple driver installation process, and the Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package provides a simple way togenerate a package for your distribution. Note: To successfully install the ATI Proprietary Linux driver, you should uninstall any third party graphics driver such as NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics drivers currently on your system. Note: ATI recommends that you create a central location for your ATI Proprietary Linux driver downloads.

Note: ATI recommends you uninstall the ATI Proprietary LinuxDriver before installing a newer version.

Operating Systems Distributions Supported
The latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following Linux distributions: • Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite • Novell/SuSE product suite

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Ubuntu Note: The ATI Proprietary Linux driver may be installed on a number of otherLinux distributions. Refer to the installation instructions for more information. Note: ATI has contributed packaging scripts to allows creation of other packages, but does not necessarily test, verify or warrant the reliability. Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite and Novell/SuSE product suite are supported Linux distributions. Note: ATI Events Daemon is not installed in /etc/init.d if usingthe Automatic Driver Installation Option. To install the ATI Events Daemon for Red Hat and SuSE, use the Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package option to create packages for LGD installation. If there are no available packages for your distribution that install scripts for the daemon, refer to their respective user documentation on inserting and use of services/daemons. Examples scripts canbe located in the default directory of "/usr/share/doc/ati/examples" after Automatic Driver Installation Option installation.

Minimum System Requirements
Before attempting to install the ATI Proprietary Linux driver, the following software must be installed: • POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D apps • glibc version 2.2 or 2.3 • Linux kernel 2.6 or higher • XOrg 6.8, 6.9,7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4 Note: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the kernel config file, or if the 'agpgart' module is loaded.

System Recommendations
For best performance and ease of use, ATIrecommends the following: • Kernel module build environment • Kernel source code includes either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages • The RPM utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install via RPM packages

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The following packages must be installed in order for the Catalyst™ Linux driver to installand work properly: • XFree86-Mesa-libGL • libstdc++ • libgcc • XFree86-libs • fontconfig • freetype • zlib • gcc Note: In order to use the fglrx internal AGP support, you have to make sure that the kernel agpgart support is not active (i.e. it is not compiled into the kernel and the kernel modules are not loaded). If the fglrx kernel module detects that the kernel agpgart support is active, itwill automatically use that even if its internal AGP support is requested in order to avoid conflicts that can cause problems under some circumstances.

Uninstalling the ATI Linux Proprietary Driver
Uninstalling the ATI Linux Proprietary Driver is dependent on the mode of the initial installation.

Automatic or Custom Driver Installations
If the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver was installed...