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Ascia75

Member

Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 2

Ati and Catalyst drivers

Hello,
when i installed arch about one week ago i download the ati driver from their site and run their utility instead of using pacman, this because i couldnt find fglrx in the repos (as i didnt know they changed name of the drivers)

Now trying to install Compyz-fusion on my arch i found out that having the ati-site driver installed instead of the ones you get with pacman can cause trouble to the X server; infact, i couldnt manage to install compiz because i got an error of the type:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
[...] /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem

so what i did to get drivers from pacman is:
run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-unistall.sh
reboot the system
pacman -S catalyst

but i still got this error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
catalyst-utils: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem

even if i'm sure old ati drivers are gone, as at the moment my screen is not properly working as it was before..

so, what should i do to get new drivers from pacman?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Ati and Catalyst drivers

pacman -Sf catalyst should force the install - make sure no package owns that file first by running pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libGL.so

Ascia75

Member

Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 2

Re: Ati and Catalyst drivers

It caused me some problem (my fault anyway, i think i didnt check correctly if that file was used by something else), but now everything is ok
thanks