fedora 18/19 ATI Radeon HD 5650 video driver

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My laptop is acer aspire timline X 5820TG. It has the same GPU like you, and Unfortunately, I failed to use akmod-catalyst either. I got fglrx work two years ago in Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with bios option discrete card only and fail now for some unknown reasons.

Now there are three operating systems in my laptop. Windows 7 64-bit, succeed of course. Fedora 19 32-bit, use open source driver radeon only. CentOS 6.4 32-bit, succeed with a RPM repository called ELRepo, but it only support enterprise linux.

There is still something you can do:

• Go to BIOS changing the option to force your laptop use discrete card only. In my case the default value is 'switchable.' And install the driver again.
• Check whether you miss some 32-bit libraries listed in the official AMD linux installation document.
• Some error messages in /var/log/Xorg.N.log might help.

Hope you will get a nice result.