AMD Catalyst� 13.8 LINUX Beta Driver

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http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa … river.aspx

[Pedro Mateus]

Doesn’t work on my end, direct rendering went tits up and this is the only relevant output from the terminal:
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
libGL error: open uki failed (Operation not permitted)

[Pedro Mateus]

And now I know why… Fuckin’ AMD can’t make a driver worth a fuck.
Any way, here’s how to solve it.

1. Make amd-catalyst-13.8-beta1-linux-x86.x86_64.run executable, either through chmod or the right-click – properties – permissions tab

2. Run it (not as root) it’ll extract everything to a subfolder from where you have the .run file.
eg.: In my case it was called “fglrx-install.OFVhy5“

3. Enter your password and minimize the installer (Don’t close it)

4. Inside that temporary folder it creates do a search for firegl_public.c

5. Open firegl_public.c and do a search for this line:
root = KCL_create_proc_dir(NULL, “ati”, S_IFDIR);

6. Replace it with this one:
root = KCL_create_proc_dir(NULL, “ati”, S_IFDIR|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO);

7. Now you can resume the install and reboot when prompted.

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