Tuesday, 10 June 2014

How To: Install AMD Catalyst 14.4 and 14.6 Beta on Any Distro with Linux Kernel 3.15

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    Now that Linus Torvalds finally announced the release of Linux Kernel version 3.15 STABLE, most of us want to install it right away, but then we remember "Dang, AMD/Nvidia doesn't support it yet" and we feel a little bit down for not having an Intel based Graphics card... until now! We here at Your Own Linux have just found a way of installing AMD Catalyst in Linux Kernel 3.15!


Here it goes:

1. Install all the dependencies like you would in your distro. For Ubuntu-based distros:

$ sudo apt-get install dh-make dh-modaliases execstack libc6-i386 lib32gcc1 build-essential dkms
2. Download appropriate AMD Catalyst Graphics Driver for your Graphics card from www.amd.com

3. Download this patch (by the author) and put it in your user folder (/home/Your-username-here).

4. Unzip the AMD Catalyst Graphics Driver and change to the extracted directory (Should look something like fglrx*).

5. Add execute permissions to amd-catalyst-*.run.

$ chmod +x amd-catalyst-*.run
6. Run amd-catalyst-*.run with the following command :

$ ./amd-catalyst-*.run --extract catalyst
7. Change to catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod directory and keep the patch (the one you downloaded earlier) there.

8. Run patch -p0 < 3.15_kernel.patch on the terminal.

9. Change back into catalyst/ and execute:

$ sudo sh ati-installer.sh 14.100/14.20
where, 14.20 is the 14.6 beta and install the driver like you normally would. In Ubuntu based distros, you have to do

$ sudo sh ati-installer.sh 14.100/14.20 --buildpkg
If you have Ubuntu and built the packages just change to the parent directory of catalyst and install them with

$ sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
10. Reboot the system and enjoy your new AMD Graphics with Linux kernel 3.15!

Author Bio:
My name is Emanuel Vitorino, I'm 16 years old and I'm a Linux user since I was 13! I've been exploring this great new world and learning new things, currently I'm taking a course on Computer Engineering in my High School. I am from Portugal.

10 comments:

  1. andres18 June 2014 at 21:19

    what do I do in step 8 when I run patch -p0 < 3.15_kernel.patch and then it prompts "Patch:" so I dont know what to do from here

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    1. Emanuel Vitorino19 June 2014 at 17:09

      did you copy the patch to catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod ?

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    2. Anonymous24 June 2014 at 19:54

      just go to catalyst/common/, paste .patch file and run patch -p0 < 3.15_kernel.patch

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  2. Anonymous28 June 2014 at 17:56

    pls make video how use patch

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  3. Anonymous24 July 2014 at 22:38

    does this work on kernel 3.15.6 stable, as in no mod needed to the patch?

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  4. Anonymous25 July 2014 at 12:38

    This doesn't work for me
    $ uname -r
    3.15.6-200.fc20.x86_64
    Driver install fine, no error message, no error in log. When I reboot I get a blank screen. :-(

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  5. Emanuel Vitorino25 July 2014 at 17:24

    I only made this patch for 3.15.0, not above...

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  6. Anonymous26 July 2014 at 00:23

    hi,for me its working, but i have question?can u make patch for 3.15.6... its stable officially(kernel.org) or can i just update kernel?

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  7. Anonymous5 August 2014 at 01:10

    Ok, So the catch here is the patch is only for 3.15.0. For rest of the kernel versions (you can get it by doing a uname -r in terminal) the patch has to be edited. Instead of KERNEL_VERSION(3,15,0) if the last digid has to be edited to ur actual kernel patch number. mine was 3.15.7 so it became KERNEL_VERSION(3,15,7) If this is not done, you will get a blank screen on boot

    Secondly patch file should go to the folder catalyst/common not catalyst/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod

    Works fine with 3.15.7 Thanx Emanuel Vitorino

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