How can I safely and painlessly downgrade catalyst drivers?

Deusdies · 2011-09-20 06:35:26

The latest version of catalyst is 11.8 and is horrible for me. For example, the computer screen does not turn on after going to sleep (a problem I had with 11.4 as well), when running applications from Terminal I'm constantly getting X errors, and now the latest is that I can't make boxee compile at all, complaining about missing lGL (I've googled around and people suggest reinstalling catalyst or installing mesa).

Disclaimer: I need catalyst drivers and not FOSS ones because of my hardware.

So the question is how would I go about downgrading from 11.8 to 11.7 as painlessly as possible?

ngoonee · 2011-09-20 06:46:20

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade - did you search the wiki first?

Deusdies · 2011-09-20 06:48:26

Yes and I know how to generally downgrade packages, but catalyst is specific in that it's from AUR, it has many scripts attached to it, there is a kernel module, and my past experiences with trying to downgrade it resulted in a screwed up system (following the wiki)

ngoonee · 2011-09-20 07:36:52

Nothing much to be said except 'try it yourself', in this case. I'm an nvidia user, its quite easy to 'downgrade'. You may have to downgrade xorg and related as well.

Deusdies · 2011-09-20 13:24:59

Anyone else?

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#1 2011-09-20 06:35:26

How can I safely and painlessly downgrade catalyst drivers?

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Re: How can I safely and painlessly downgrade catalyst drivers?

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