Anyone get Catalyst / radeon driver working in CentOS 7?

[Ragnakak]

I am getting the following error when trying to install the catalyst 14.9 driver in CentOS 7


Detected configuration:
Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit)
X Server: X.Org 6.9 or later 64-bit
loki_setup: directory: (null)
Error: Packaging scripts failed to identify current distro/version. Please provide a distro/version from --listpkg as a parameter
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.EscFCk

My Hardware if it makes a difference:

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (BIOS v. F5a) (No Secure Boot feature in the BIOS that I'm aware of.)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor × 4AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor × 4
8GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6950
CentOS 7 64-Bit

I'm assuming it is looking for a Red Hat string somewhere and I need to change it to CentOS, but I'm not sure which file to edit. Any help is appreciated.

[psposito]

On today fresh minimal install with Mate Desktop & Lightdm (Centos 7 Rolling):

Installed with Yumex:

kernel-devel libstdc++ libgcc mesa-libGL fontconfig freetype zlib gcc (both 64 & 32 bits where available).

Downloaded the amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-linux-run-installers.zip from amd site.

Extracted the zip file annd folder fglrx-14.501.1003 was created.

Executed the amd-driver-installer-14.501.1003-x86.x86_64.run by sudo, and finally rebooted.

AMD Catalyst and Driver working.

[TrevorH]

The better way to do this is to get the packaged versions of the drivers from the ELRepo project. These survive kernel updates, yours will not.

[nugai]

@TrevorH: I agree it would be nice if that were possible. Unfortunately, there seem to be no fglrx drivers in the RHEL/Centos 7 elrepo.

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yum --enablerepo=elrepo install fglrx*

...reports "No package fglrx* available".

[nugai]

@pkbarbiedoll:
Some of the problems you encounter are due the fact that you have X11 running while trying to upgrade the driver. You need to start ./amd-driver-installer-xxx from the console before X11 starts,

[AlanBartlett]

@TrevorH: I agree it would be nice if that were possible. Unfortunately, there seem to be no fglrx drivers in the RHEL/Centos 7 elrepo.

Please try --

yum --enablerepo elrepo-testing list fglrx\*

Currently the package is in the testing repository, whilst awaiting feed-back from end users.

[nugai]

Please try --

yum --enablerepo elrepo-testing list fglrx\*

Currently the package is in the testing repository, whilst awaiting feed-back from end users.

Great, Alan, thanks for letting us know -- these drivers help a great deal!!!
I first ran the list command shown above and then:

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yum --enablerepo elrepo-testing install fglrx-x11-drv

The install is relatively slow after download: Installing kmod-fglrx-14.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 took about 6 minutes before a "Working. This may take some time..." message appeared, then continued for another 3-4 minutes before completing successfully -- so, the good news is, it worked and the drivers were installed successfully! I can also confirm that these elrepo drivers indeed do survive a kernel upgrade via `yum upgrade`, as TrevorH suggested.

Aside from the slow install, the only caveat I found is that my multi-monitor configuration was overwritten by the install. For anyone running a complicated monitor config (I run 4 monitors off 2 cheap HD 6500 cards), I suggest users should back up their config with `cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-latest-good-config` before the install and then copy it back with `cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-latest-good-config /etc/X11/xorg.conf` after the install and before rebooting, as pointed out in "10. Post-Installation Note (added 20-Aug-2014)" posted above (the other uninstall steps mentioned there are no longer necessary -- in fact, I added a note to that post that the installation steps described there are no longer necessary).

Note: elrepo-testing currently shows the drivers as version 14.9-1.el7.elrepo. FWIW, the AMD Catalyst web site at http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/d ... 20x86%2064 shows that an RPM is now available with version 14.12, released 12/8/2014. Anyone encountering problems with brand new hardware may have have to resort to using those drivers.

[varriola]

I tried the elrepo-testing package. But it does not boot up. Just stayed at a black screen with blinking 'bar cursor' on the top left of the screen. Any suggestions?

CPU is 8-core AMD. Video is Radeon R7 260X.

Thanks.

[nugai]

I tried the elrepo-testing package. But it does not boot up. Just stayed at a black screen with blinking 'bar cursor' on the top left of the screen. Any suggestions?

CPU is 8-core AMD. Video is Radeon R7 260X.

Thanks.

You need to check the Xorg and fglrx logs to see what's going on (or not).

[TrevorH]

Is xorg.x11-glamor installed? If so, try yum remove xorg-x11-glamor