The first is to meet the package requirements, and the second is to run a desktop environment other than GNOME (I use KDE).Īs stated by the “installer.html” document provided by the driver, the prerequisites are as follows: There are two major prerequisites for the AMD Catalyst 14.4 driver on Fedora 20. A friendly Linux troubleshooter by the name of Duane commented on my post regarding the matter and finished the research I had started by locating and verifying the patch. To overcome this error, I tracked down a post in wherein one “leigh123linux” proposes a resolution to the issue with a simple patch (at first glance, it appears merely to instruct the code’s check for the kernel version to return success for kernel versions 3.14 and above). Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-14.10 from DKMS Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-14.10 with DKMS On Fedora 20 with kernel versions 3.14.86_64 and above, however, the Catalyst 14.4 driver (as well as the Release Candidate) will not install successfully, but will fail with the following error: Building module:Ĭd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.10/build sh make.sh -nohints -uname_r=3.14.86_64 -norootcheck.(bad exit status: 1)
Of course, it could also be a simple typographical error on behalf of AMD, since the 14.4 Release Candidate claims support for kernel versions through 3.13 (again, see the “System Requirements” section near the bottom of the page). It initially seemed that AMD had dropped support for kernel versions beyond 3.11 (see the “System Requirements” section about half-way down the page), and that may still be the case, but the Catalyst 14.4 driver installs successfully on Fedora 20 with kernel versions through 3.13.86_64 (see here for instructions, but you’ll probably want to read on for the instructions for overcoming the incompatibility with the latest Fedora 20 kernel if not, update your kernel! Sheesh!). So, if you’ve been following the recent post on the AMD Catalyst 14.4 (fglrx) driver for Fedora 20, you know that we (thanks, Duane!) seem to have discovered the solution to installing Catalyst 14.4 (fglrx) on Fedora 20 with the latest Fedora kernel (3.14.86_64). run file once you have met the prerequisites described below (including the removal of GNOME, unfortunately). The short story is: no patch is required for the new driver. Be sure to check out the next post in this series for the latest information on version 14.9 of the Catalyst (fglrx) driver for Linux.
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