X.Org 7.1 on Debian with FGLRX drivers
April 26th, 2007
# download the latest ati installer
wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run
X_VERSION=x710 LANG=C LC_ALL=C sh ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/unstable
# install the source (tar.bz2 file will be placed in /usr/src)
dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.36.5-1_i386.deb
cd /usr/src
tar -jvxf fglrx.tar.bz2
cd /usr/src/linux
make-kpkg --append-to-version=-2-686-smp modules_image
cd /usr/src
# install the kernel module and xorg driver
dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.36.5-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-2.6.16-2-686-smp_8.36.5-1+2.6.16-686-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
# reboot and check with
fglrxinfo
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