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ATI Installation Script
Installation script for the ATI Radeon drivers (>=8.28.8) for Ubuntu Version 0.1 beta
ati-driver-installer.sh :
# # Installation script for the ATI Radeon drivers (>=8.28.8) for Ubuntu # v0.1 beta # Programming by Andreas Wiese (mr.wiese@web.de) # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 # of the License # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html export VERSION="8.29.6" export UBUNTU="dapper" # Replace this with the current version you want to install echo "Script for installing the ATI Radeon drivers in Ubuntu" echo echo "*** Download the ATI Driver Installer from www.ati.com and save the installer into this directory." sleep 2 if [ `ls -al /bin/ | grep -c sh.old` != "1" ]; then echo echo "*** If you get a syntax error saying: Bad substitution there's probably a problem with the Shell 'dash'. This problem can be fixed by replacing the Shell 'dash' with 'bash'." echo -n ">>> Do you want to temporarly replace the Shell for this installation? [yes/no]: " read qtint if [ "$qtint" = "yes" ]; then echo "*** Replacing the Shell 'dash' with 'bash'..." sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh export tmpinst="1" sleep 2 else echo "*** Check for yourself that the packages are generated successfully." sleep 2 fi fi # Install necessary tools echo echo "*** IMPORTANT: Make sure the universe section of the Ubuntu repositories is enabled." echo "*** Installing necessary tools for compiling..." sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fakeroot module-assistant build-essential debhelper linux-headers-386 linux-restricted-modules-386 linux-restricted-modules-common sleep 2 # GCC version echo if [ `gcc --version | grep -c " 4."` != "0" ]; then echo "*** The current ATI drivers need gcc version >= 4.0. Your version of gcc seems to be ok." else echo "*** The current ATI drivers need gcc version >= 4.0. Your version of gcc seems to be too old. Please install a newer version of gcc." echo -n "Your version of gcc is " gcc --version | grep gcc echo echo ">>> Installation aborted!" exit fi sleep 2 # Remove old driver packages echo echo "*** Removing old ATI installation packages in this folder..." sudo rm -f fglrx-*.deb sudo rm -f xorg-driver-fglrx*.deb sudo rm -f fglrx*.changes sleep 2 # Create driver packages echo echo "*** Creating ATI driver packages for Ubuntu..." chmod +x ati-driver-installer-$VERSION.run bash ati-driver-installer-$VERSION.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/$UBUNTU sleep 2 # Clean up the system echo echo "*** Removing old ATI driver packages..." sudo apt-get remove -y fglrx-control fglrx-kernel-$(uname -r) fglrx-kernel-source fglrx-sources xorg-driver-fglrx xorg-driver-fglrx-dev sleep 2 # Install driver packages echo echo "*** Installing new ATI driver packages..." sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx*.deb sudo dpkg -i fglrx-*.deb sleep 2 # Remove any old fglrx deb's from /usr/src/ echo echo "*** Removing old fglrx packages from linux kernel..." sudo rm -f /usr/src/fglrx*.deb sleep 2 # Compile the kernel module echo echo "*** Compiling the fglrx kernel module..." sudo module-assistant prepare,update sudo module-assistant a-i fglrx-kernel-source sudo depmod -a sleep 2 # Update the xorg.conf echo echo "*** Updating the X.org configuration..." sudo aticonfig --initial sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv sleep 2 # Remove driver packages echo echo "*** Removing ATI installation packages in this folder..." sudo rm -f fglrx-*.deb sudo rm -f xorg-driver-fglrx*.deb sudo rm -f fglrx*.changes sleep 2 # Link DRI patch echo echo "*** Linking DRI modules..." sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dri /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri sleep 2 # Setting back to dash if [ "$tmpinst" = "1" ]; then echo "*** Setting back the Shell to 'dash'..." sudo rm /bin/sh sudo mv /bin/sh.old /bin/sh sleep 2 fi # Finish echo echo ">>> Installation finished." echo "*** Finally disable the module 'fglrx' in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common."
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