Tech Source Condor 2000 Series User Manual

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Condor 2000 Series User’s Guide

Part #65-0286-04 Rev A

Linux Software Installation

3.1

3.1 Linux Display Driver

Linux Display Driver

The following section describes how to install and configure the display driver for the Condor 2000 Series
graphics card for the Linux operating system.

ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver can be obtained

from AMD’s support page :

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

From the choices provided, select the type of system (Embedded Graphics), the product family (Radeon

Embedded), the product (E4690), your Linux operating system, and then select ‘Display Results’.

Direct link to the Linux display driver:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx

The ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver for Linux is designed to support the following Linux
distributions :

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite

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Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise

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Ubuntu

3.2

2 Linux Installation Requirements

Linux Installation Requirements

Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver, the following software must be installed:

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X.org 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6

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Linux kernel 2.6 or above

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glibc version 2.2 or 2.3

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POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications.

The following packages must be installed in order for the AMD Catalyst driver for Linux to install and work
optimally:

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XFree86-Mesa-libGL

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libstdc++

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libgcc

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XFree86-libs

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fontconfig

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freetype

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zlib

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gcc

When installing the Linux driver, make sure the kernel and kernel-devel package versions match. The
YUM updater can be used as well as other update tools to get the packages above. The RPM utility
should be installed and configured correctly on the system if the install will be done using RPM packages.
Please contact Tech Source directly for more support

This information can also be found in the Release Notes for the ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver for
Linux.