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floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

New catalyst drivers - now X won't start

After new catalyst drivers from a pacman -Syu last night I could no longer boot up - would just get a blank screen after starting gdm.
Unfortunately I had also recently -Scc'd so had no old drivers to install. Managed to get the system back up and running by using a live cd to move my xorg.conf back to an earlier version using different drivers, but would like to know how I can possibly fix this properly (especially since its my wife's laptop and it took a lot of persuading to get Arch on it!).

Any thoughts?

wottam

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From: Spain

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 59

Re: New catalyst drivers - now X won't start

Something similar happened to me in the previous update, and though I have no idea on why, I have somehow been able to bypass this issue. What I did was to add in rc.conf 'ati_agp' and 'drm' before 'fglrx' (so fglrx will fail to load). Then, in rc.local, remove 'drm' and load 'fglrx' again. I know it doesn't make sense, but it's the only way it works for me, so maybe is worth giving a try