Anyone on here know how to install proprietary GPU drivers in Fedora? It has been one of my favorite Linux Distros for years because of their philosophy about open source and their interpretation of the GPL.
My problem is I want to game on it. I can run the steam client without issues but very few games and I know it is because I'm running the default open source drivers baked into the kernel and not the AMD drivers. Ubuntu gives you the ability to just install the drivers from their utility built into the OS and by using that I can play my games without issue. I don't like how Ubuntu has treated GPL though.
Fedora lacks the driver installer because they don't want proprietary software getting into the Kernel. I have and AMD GPU though and AMD has open source drivers as well as proprietary ones so I should be able to install the open ones at least but can't find any documentation on the Linux forums. Any one have an ideas?
So you need to install Catalyst? Try the one from AMD's website
I tried the Red Hat RPM without any real luck, the latest version of RHEL (7) is kind of behind Fedora 22 (they aren't even using the same package manager now RHEL is still on yum and Fedora is now using dnf) which is the latest release that I'm running. I had to revert back because I couldn't even get the system to boot after installing that. I suppose I could try their generic Linux driver though and compile it. I'd kind of like to use the open source one that you can get with Ubuntu though which has worked well for me in the past, can't seem to find a tar.gz for it though so I can build tor program for Fedora, everything is .deb (which makes sense since it was made for Ubuntu).
I have only dabbled with fedora rawhide a bit, but I seem to remember having to add the free software repo and then the non free repo which contains proprietary drivers.
The open driver is in Fedora by default. So if you need the open driver you do not need to do anything. Its the same for all linux distros. Its just the packaging that changes.
The proprietary driver you download from the AMD site. Here is a guide to install:
BTW when you tried to install the drivers and you could not boot, if you got a blank screen (or the window manager crashed) it could be because you did not initialize the ati after you installed it. (sth like aticonfig --initial)