On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:44 AM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A digression about the driver on SL6: > The annoying thing is that every time you update your kernel you'll need to > rebuild the drivers against the new kernel headers. The awesome part is that > the driver building process is mostly automated for you, AMD has lately done > a very nice job of maintaining its driver set for Linux, games, CAD, and > anything else graphical you want to do really fly on an A8, and all this is > free (both types of "free" -- AMD opensourced its Linux drivers, so the > Catalyst package is no longer "evil", or at least not as evil as it once > was). > > I wrote a procedure for the E350 (with some background) that should work > fine on your A8 on the SL forums here: > http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=415&view=findpost&p=7102 > > Procedural notes for SL6 have also been added to the AMD driver wiki here: > http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Scientific_Linux#Scientific_Linux_6x > > The AMD release page is here: > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx > (if not you can select your type from http://support.amd.com ) > > Hope the explanation didn't confuse, and that the driver links are helpful. ... Or head for elrepo.org and install kmod-fglrx : http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-fglrx It survives kernel updates transparently, so there is no need to rebuild/install each time you update the kernel. Also, 'yum update' will update the version of the ATI driver when a new version of the driver becomes available. Basically, it a 'install once and forget forever' type operation. :-) In Scientific Linux 6, setting up ELRepo is as easy as: yum install elrepo-release Akemi