Installing proprietary drivers?

[graphyte]

So I want to use ati's drivers rather than what comes already in mageia :S
But I get this error

What do I do?

[daniel@localhost Downloads]$ ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.tAw6hF
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.593...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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which: no XFree86 in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/daniel/bin)

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.38.8-desktop586-9.mga; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.tAw6hF

[martinw]

Don't use the ATI installer, instead install the ATI drivers from the Mageia repository.

First, if you haven't already done so, make a full set of software sources available to the software installer. To do this, start the Mageia Control Centre (located under Tools->System Tools in the main menu), click on "Configure media sources..." in the "Software Management" tab, click on the "Add" button, then click on the "Full set of sources" button. After a little while you should end up with a long list of sofware media.

Next, again if you haven't already done so, tick the "Enabled" box in the "Nonfree Release" and "Nonfree Updates" entries in the software media list.

Now if you click on "Set up graphical server" in the "Hardware" tab of the Mageia Control Centre, it should ask you if you want to install the proprietary drivers (fglrx). Say yes, and it will install the ATI drivers.

I think we need a MAQeia for this!

[wobo]

As for the problem with the ati installer used by graphyte: you have to run the installer as root, otherwise the script is not able to install the driver.

But certainly I agree to the "done best from Mageia repository" approach as martinw wrote in his previous post.

[sglafata]

Based on the error, you have a 586 kernel, but you are trying to install a x86_64 ATI driver.... first try with the correct driver, and see if it gives you any further errors.... but you do have to install it as root.