Catalyst driver

PLANTROON · 2012-08-27 19:30:55

How can I install catalyst driver? I have read the arch wiki but I get dependency conflicts. Also, when I tried to install catalyst drivers first, then xorg, I think xorg has overwritten them and they could no longer be installed. I dont mind using xf86-video-ati driver, but it looks like it does not have hardware acceleration. Enemy Territory was terribly lagging and even World of Warcraft in Wine was running better. (5-10 fps though). So is there any way forcing HW acceleration on xf86 driver?

carukia · 2012-08-27 20:02:13

What dependency conflicts did you get?

PLANTROON · 2012-08-27 20:18:24

Conflict with xf86-video-ati driver and its features. When I tried to uninstall this one, I got even more dependency conflicts (xorg-server, xorg-server-utils, ...) and uninstalling all of them partially will simply uninstall everything I had on my Arch. Then I tried to reinstall archlinux. First I installed base base-devel and syslinux. Then I installed the catalyst driver and then xorg and gnome. It seems that Xorg has overwritten catalyst with xf86-video-ati which cant be removed again and as well catalyst cannot be reinstalled because of the same dependency conflicts.

kanazky · 2012-08-28 01:07:01

Hey buddy,

during the installation, before you install the xorg drivers, go into your repository lists and add the Catalyst repo from the wikki, before the first repo entry at the top. This will make it have a higer priority then the xorg one found below it. Install the catalyst drivers from the offical repo

Good Luck

*Note* I perfer Nano to Vi for adding things like that.

cfr · 2012-08-28 01:14:15

You can probably also do something like installing the vesa drivers to satisfy the xorg etc. dependencies. That would allow you to uninstall the ati drivers before installing catalyst. [Note: I haven't tried this as I don't have this type of card but I doubt that vesa would conflict with either the ati or the catalyst drivers but it should satisfy the various packages which depend on some video driver being installed.] You will still need to enable the repo, of course.

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Dheart · 2012-08-28 07:58:53

You can pacman -Rd the ati driver and its components since you're going to be installing catalyst, you'd not be needing those.

PLANTROON · 2012-08-28 09:04:14

Thank you for all replies, my gfx card doesnt support the newest driver version (12.8) so I need to use alternative repos or download the packages from amd website.

PLANTROON · 2012-08-28 11:08:09

Hmm ... it is not that bad with default drivers in Arch. How do I enable hardware acceleration? Some games are running 75 fps (Vsync enabled ) but I cant have hardware acceleration on youtube videos (a bit of lag in full screen) and when I started ubuntu in virtualbox I could only see the simple text boot screen. So do I really need proprietary ati driver or can I enable the hardware acceleration with xf86-video-ati driver?

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Dheart · 2012-08-28 13:38:04

If you get 75 FPS in games then you already have hardware acceleration. However video acceleration in flash is only supported through VDPAU (nvidia api) and CrystalHD (Broadcom) so I don't think you can get it working with your ati card.

PLANTROON · 2012-08-28 23:49:58

I already installed ati driver. I had to use an alternative distro and also reconfigure many things, play with files... all day is now gone

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#1 2012-08-27 19:30:55

Catalyst driver

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Re: Catalyst driver

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Re: Catalyst driver

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#6 2012-08-28 07:58:53

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