[elrepo] fglrx on/for CentOS 6.8

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 07/17/2016 03:16 PM, jacques klein wrote:
> Hello, I have installed a CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
>
> Now I need to install the AMD driver for my graphic card and do not 
> even think about doing it from the AMD stuf...
Good thinking !


>
> But I also suspect that the elrepo provided rpms are not CentOS 6.8 
> compatible; 

They are compatiblle.
[wolfy at wolfy openvpn]$ uname -a
Linux wolfy 2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 31 21:57:07 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[wolfy at wolfy openvpn]$ rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-6-8.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64
[wolfy at wolfy openvpn]$ rpm -qa \*fglrx\*
kmod-fglrx-15.12-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
fglrx-x11-drv-15.12-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
[wolfy at wolfy openvpn]$ runlevel
N 5


> well it's kernel version in fact, see postinstall scripts,
> and maybe for other reasons I am not aware.
care to elaborate, please  ?


>
> I am looking for any advice,
yum install elrepo-release && yum install kmod-fglrx

Should you really encounter any issue, feel free to contact us here.

Regards,

     wolfy