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arx

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From: 2730ft above sea level

Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 46

Catalyst installation issues (4.8 kernel)

Greetings, I'm trying to get catalyst-hook installed via pacman. I'm currently on the 4.8.11-1 kernel, but also received the same error after downgrading to 4.7.5-1 kernel.

$ sudo pacman -S --force catalyst-hook
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "linux<4.7", a dependency of "catalyst-hook"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      catalyst-hook

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst-hook: requires linux<4.7

Same when trying to install from AUR as well.

Please advise, thanks.

Last edited by arx (2016-12-03 07:23:13)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,976

Re: Catalyst installation issues (4.8 kernel)

Change to the linux-lts kernel.  The error you are getting is very simple to understand: your installed kernel is not supported.  The kernel version must be below version 4.7 or the package will not install.  The reason for this is because Catalyst is proprietary software and AMD have not updated it for newer Linux kernels.  Being proprietary no one else can update it either.  Welcome to the world of being at the mercy of your vendor, the opposite of free software.  If your GPU is a Graphics Core Next model then you may be able to use the xf86-video-amdgpu driver which is the de-facto replacement for Catalyst.  If you can't use amdgpu then your only other real option, while using recent Linux kernels, is to install xf86-video-ati.