fglrx in raring

[jfernyhough]

Another release, another fglrx tracking thread.

AMD have just released their beta 12.11 drivers. While Quantal (and as such Raring) has working drivers in the repos (for HD5k+ cards) the AMD release is a little newer (fglrx 9.01 compared to 9.000).

The 12.11 beta adds official xserver 1.13 support, which is nice.

Download is here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx
You need to extract it.

Steps to build are fairly simple at the moment, though I'm assuming you're upgrading the driver and not installing fresh:

$ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-x86.x86_64.zip
$ unzip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-x86.x86_64.zip
$ sh ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/raring
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ sudo nano /etc/ati/signature

9777c589791007f4aeef06c922ad54a2:ae59f5b9572136d99fdd36f0109d358fa643f2bd4a2644d9efbb4fe91a9f6590a145:f612f0b01f2565cd9bd834f8119b309bae11a1ed4a2661c49fdf3fad11986cc4f641f1ba1f2265909a8e34ff1699309bf211a7eb4d7662cd9f8e3faf14986d92f646f1bc

You'll need to add the above signature (taken from the repo fglrx 9.00) to remove the "Testing" watermark.

Reboot and all should be good!