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ℓith

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2015-03-30

Posts: 1

AMD Catalyst breaks TTY

Hi,

I have installed AMD Catalyst. When I boot, virtual console appears as usual (since I don't use a display manager), I am able to login, and I can run Xorg.

But once Xorg has been launched, if I try to switch back to TTY, only a black screen appears. The console does still work though, if I type startx, Xfce starts again. There is just no text.

I already tried this, but without success.

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6870

/etc/default/grub Kernel parameters:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset vga=0x0346 cryptdevice=/dev/lvm/Root:root root=/dev/mapper/root resume=/dev/mapper/swap"

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf hooks:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keymap lvm2 encrypt filesystems keyboard fsck"

desaparecido

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From: Liège, Belgium

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 155

Re: AMD Catalyst breaks TTY

hi, I suppose than like me you use xorg 1.17 and catalyst-test from AUR, if is the case here a  comment in the package page from packager and maintainer of catalyst stuff:

2015-03-13 21:14

updated to 15.3-1:
- borrowed from ubuntu.
- brings xserver 1.17 support
- its buggy

I was thinking for long time about uploading this driver because I think it sucks . On xserver 1.17 xv video output doesn't work at all, as well as tty terminal, which is sad . After switching to xserver 1.16 it gets back to normal. I remember that in the past AMD did release ubuntu driver which had same bugs.
So it sucks, steam games are working fine, maybe better, but still.
And since this package is called catalyst-test i decided to make this update, you can switch to catalyst-total in no-time.

I also dropped many patches and left only most neccessary, so 1) for intel iommu, 2) for agp 3) for 4.0 kernel support. You can still uncomment dropped one if you want.

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JoZ3

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 1

Re: AMD Catalyst breaks TTY

Hi,

I have installed AMD Catalyst. When I boot, virtual console appears as usual (since I don't use a display manager), I am able to login, and I can run Xorg.

But once Xorg has been launched, if I try to switch back to TTY, only a black screen appears. The console does still work though, if I type startx, Xfce starts again. There is just no text.

I already tried this, but without success.

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6870

/etc/default/grub Kernel parameters:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset vga=0x0346 cryptdevice=/dev/lvm/Root:root root=/dev/mapper/root resume=/dev/mapper/swap"

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf hooks:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keymap lvm2 encrypt filesystems keyboard fsck"

Any news about this?

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,175

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Re: AMD Catalyst breaks TTY

Hi, could you please tell which versions of AMD Catalyst and X server you are using?

If I'm not mistaken, Catalyst 14.12 (as in Vi0L0's repo) doesn't support X 1.17, but does support X 1.16, so the you might need to use the [xorg116] repository.

I see you have nomodeset as well. What happens if you don't use it? Reason I ask is because I don't use the option with my AMD Radeon 6480G and things are running perfectly fine here.

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