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evans

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Registered: 2012-04-01

Posts: 1

Catalyst problems

Hi,
Having problems with the Catalyst driver. I don't have the technical knowledge of Linux, and was hoping someone may have solved this problem and could help.

If I install a fresh version of Archlinux and my preferred desktop environment and do all the updates and then install catalyst from AMD's site, it all works great,  but after uninstalling and re-installing to upgrade to the latest version of the catalyst driver, it don't work any more.

After trying to figure-out what the installer has done differently, I noticed when I installed the first time, it creates a folder in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions called fglrx and puts a file (fglrx***) in that folder that seems to have a symbolic link pointing to it from libgl from the extensions folder.
After re-installing the catalyst driver it don't put that file back in that folder and no symbolic link.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing xorg and deleting any folder that I can find that the catalyst driver created, but no luck.

Last edited by evans (2012-04-01 15:21:59)

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 299

Re: Catalyst problems

This little wiki entry answers all the things you have ever wanted to know - and much more