On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:36:31 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I have the noarch stuff installed.
I notice though that the accompanying text says "If you only want the files needed to build 3rdparty (nVidia, Ati, dkms-*,...) drivers against, install the *-devel-* rpm that is matching your kernel." So as I am trying to install fglrx, I'm guessing that I should remove that. Yes?
If I select i586 stuff, it tries to install x.x.latest and then there's a conflict so I have to deselect it.
This is the message :-
- kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.13-2.mga4-1-1.mga4.x86_64 (due to
conflicts with kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.13-2.mga4-1-1.mga4.i586)
The only selection made against a filter of 3.12.13 is this :- Prebuilt dkms binary kernel modules for the virtualbox driver version 4.3.6 built for kernel-desktop-3.12.13-2.mga4.
So I'm lost now!
Chris
You are clearly trying to install from source (probably from a tarball you have obtained from amd). But the reference I found (and gave in my intial response) points to a binary installer. I have just downloaded that package and run it and it opens an installation front end which asks you to select from two options "Install driver 8.97.100.7 on ..." or "Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package".
Before we go any further, are you using the same tool as me? I think the binary installer may save you some grief.
I do not have either Mageia or an AMD HD card here so I cannot emulate what you are doing (and have not gone beyond opening the installer to the stage quoted). What I can say is that compiling any driver from source will require you to have installed, at the minimum, the kernel header files and the *-dev or *-devel packages (which contain headers for dependent packages) and not just the dependent package files. So for example, if driver foo depends on package bar, you need to have installed the "bar-dev" package containing the development files for package bar, and not just the "bar" package.
Mick
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