How To: Install ATI Catalyst drivers?

[yacinebarcelone]

I've recently installed the mageia 2 on my notebook (hp g6), after a while, i noticed that the graphics card(amd radeon hd 7450m 1go) is geting so hot even i'm not running any program, after some google researches i found that i have to install the AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver, I've dowloaded the .run but i have no idea how to install it ,can anybody tell me how to do that ?

[simonhoare]

Don't use the script directly from AMD. Mageia is very well organised on the Catalyst front.

Before doing anything further, type fglrxinfo into the terminal. You may have Catalyst installed but not Catalyst Control Center.

If you get a return from fglrxinfo
The driver is installed. Then simply make sure you have the tainted repo activated and install the fglrx-control-center package. You can then open this from your menu/app screen

If you don't get a return from fglrxinfo
Go to the MCC -> Hardware and try the first top left option (chipboard icon - I'm using Mageia in a different language and I can't remember what they're called in English) or the option to the right on the second row (screen icon). Then try fglrxinfo. You might also want to do aticonfig --initial as root before you reboot.

Normally, you would choose the "driver" option (something like F4) on the very first splash screen when you install Mageia but no worries, you should be able to do it now.

[djennings]

All you have to do to install ATI drivers is
Open Mageia Control Centre>Software>ConfigureMedia

Check the box for 'Non-free' and 'Non-free updates'
(If you do not have any media defined then press the button to 'Add' media and select 'Full set if sources')

Now in Mageia Control Centre>Hardware>Set up Graphical Server
go through the wizard to set up your graphics. It will ask if you want to use the proprietary driver.
Say 'yes' and it will install it for you. Reboot and you will be using the ATI proprietary driver.