[elrepo] how to get the amd driver working on RHEL 7 ?

[jacques klein]

Well, first thing I have to say: I did a "full installation", that is,
during installation I selected "Developper ....." at left of screen and
added quite everything from right.

Second, before installing the elrepo's fglrx rpms, X11 works fine, and
also after I do a rsync from my original and untouched CentOS 7.

The Xpointer is "invisible" only with the fglrx rpms installed and used,
and as what I saw, the only diffs. are
1. kernel module radeon replaced by fglrx
2. fglrx driver now used by X server ( because of the new
file /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
3. one new rpm installed, named acpid.x86_64 ( what is this for ? ).

So, what can I do ?, I posted at "Apr 1" (not a joke) a message on one
of AMD's Support Forums;  "Not Answered" up to now .....

I also wonder why the AMD's built rpms are just "not installable", and
what you do at elrepo to make "not complaining" rpms.
Do you patch the amd .so files to get rid of the "Failed dependencies" ?
or is there more involved ?.


On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:18 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:

> >
> > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/349229/60341145/ -> 
> > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/349229/60341145
> >
> "got a picture with "Oh no, something has gone wrong"" means that there 
> is something incorrect in your Xorg settings, most usually a missing 
> package or a misconfiguration. I've seen that after doing a minimal 
> install of CentOS 7 and then I attempted to add the packages needed for 
> a GUI -based desktop. KDE was very very unhappy for quite a long time.
> Anyway, according to lines 117 -134  and  156 - 433 from your paste the 
> fglrx video drivers load fine so I do not know what else to help you with.
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