How do you instal an AMD gpu driver on fedora? I've downloaded the file, but whenever I tried running it, it just crashed. I've redownloaded it and nothing changed
Fedora is a security first distro, what you have downloaded doesn't have the permission to be executed by default.
There are several ways of installing the AMD prop driver:
- the easiest way, which I recommend, is to use Fedura Utils. To install it, open a terminal window and run:
su -c "curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/satya164:/fedorautils/Fedora_18/home:satya164:fedorautils.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedorautils.repo && yum install fedorautils"
After that, just run Fedora Utils (it will prompt for root password) and use it to install the AMD proprietary drivers, it's fully automated. Fedora Utils can do other nice things also, like install Steam, Skype, Microsoft fonts, etc...
- when you just want to install the downloaded driver, you can change the permissions of the file in two ways:
1. GUI: in Nautilus, go to your download folder, right click on the downloaded driver installer .run file, go to permissions, enable executable, click OK, then run the installer by double clicking it.
2. CLI: open terminal, change directory to your download folder (e.g. "cd /home/Downloads/"), and execute "chmod -x <name of downloaded installer>", then run the installer, either from the CLI with "./<filename>" or by double clicking it in nautilus.
Normally, as the downloaded file would be in the home volume, you shouldn't need root for all of that, but probably the installer will also try to add the AMD repos for updates, and for that, you will be prompted for root password.
The AMD prop driver also installs a windows-like utility to manage the driver and check for updates.
Good luck!
I've tried installing with Fedora Utils, but it kept saying it's fnished with errors. I'm currently installing it with GUI because CLI doesn't seem to work. Does it really take forever to load?
While I'm at it, how do you chage the DNS?
Hard to know what went wrong without knowing what errors it gave you. The errors should speak for themselves. Normally Fedora Utils works just fine, unless you have a 3000 series or older, in which case you can only use the open source driver, because catalyst does not support those cards anymore. You should also know that you need to uninstall the open source drivers before installing catalyst, and if you've tried manually with kmod, it won't work either. Other than that, it could be a conflict between dependencies or a failing lib or something, but the error message will tell you that. Other possibility of course is that you've disabled the import of the key for the repo. It's OK to import keys from trusted repos, without those you can't pull in the packages. Post the errors if they don't contain any network settings, IP's, keys or anything else best kept private.
As to your question about changing DNS, not sure what you mean by that.
If you could give some more info, that would probably help a lot...