Fedora 10 Fglrx

Finally the RPMFusion Stable NonFree Updates repositories have the fglrx driver
All steps are to be executed in root/super-user mode

1) Get RPMFusion Repos.

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2) Install Fglrx

yum  install akmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs -y

3) Blacklist radeon
Add

blacklist radeon

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

4) Reboot
5) Make initrd

- While booting at grub press ‘e’ in line starting with kernel. Add ’single’ to the end. Press ‘ESC’ & press ‘b’

-

cd /boot/
rm initrd-`uname -r`.img
mkinitrd initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` --with=fglrx

6)Reboot

NOTE: You might have to do

aticonfig --initial -f

Install XBMC

XBMC (a.k.a. XBOX Media Center) is a great media center available on all platforms

If you have Ubuntu then see this

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=185738

For Fedora an unofficial rpm is available at http://www.fedorajunkies.com/index.php/XBMC

Installing From source:

0) Get Latest SVN Snapshot

svn co http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/

Fedora:
1)Get RPMFusion Repo:

rpm -Uvh  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2)Install Dependencies :

yum install SDL* glew glew-devel libmad-devel tre tre-devel libogg libogg-devel libvorbis libvorbis-devel boost \
boost-devel bzip2-devel bzip2-libs fribidi* lzo lzo-devel mysql-libs mysql-devel jasper jasper-devel faac faac-devel \
enca enca-devel hal hal-devel hal-libs cmake gperf nasm libXmu-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libXinerama-devel \
pcre-devel gcc-c++ sqlite-devel curl-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel libsmbclient-devel

3)Make sql symbolic link
- For i386

ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so

- For 64 bit

ln -s /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so

4)Configure

cd linuxport/XBMC
./configure

5)Make

make

During this some errors may occur:
A)

../xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h:31:39: error: fribidi/fribidi_char_sets.h: No such file or directory

Sol:

cd xbmc
ln -s lib/libfribidi/ fribidi
cd ..
make

B)

/usr/include/jpeglib.h:1096:55: error: jpegint.h: No such file or directory

Sol:

cp xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg/jpegint.h /usr/include/
make

C) For any other errors refer to fedorajunkies.com or fedoraforums.org

6) Install

make install

7) Configuring

Open xbmc by typing   xbmc in terminal or ALT+F2

-Settings > System >Audio Hardware

-Change Audio Output to Digital

-Change Audio Output Device and Passthrough Output Device to same device settings

(pulse -for fedora , hdmi/spdif- for ubuntu/debian systems)

You can also find out your device by using

aplay -L

To learn More about plugins and scripts Visit

http://www.xbmc.org/wiki