Something must go wrong when you build the driver into a package. Maybe it's missing an instruction somewhere?

Instead I tried running it directly
sh amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run

and proceeded with the default options. Rebooted and xserver started up with no problem this time. ATI ...

Hello,

I've followed the instructions on the Salix wiki How_to_Install_ATI_Driver page and done a lot of searching but can't get the AMD Radeon working.

HP Pavilion dv7
Salix Xfce 13.37 64-bit


lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor ...