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jamesish

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 3

replacing catalyst-utils with libgl?

So i have my arch linux setup up and running, including what seems to be 3d acceleration on my radeon video card.  However, i had alot of artifacts, its still slow, and wont support transparencies.

Im pretty sure it has to do with the fact that i installed the catalyst-utils rather than libgl.
this seems simple enough, but when i

pacman -S libgl

i get

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst: requires catalyst-utils>=8.02]

so i tried to remove the old drivers...

# pacman -S libgl
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst: requires catalyst-utils>=8.02
bash-3.2# pacman -Rf catalyst-utils
loading package data... done.
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: alephone: requires libgl
:: catalyst: requires catalyst-utils>=8.02
:: cube: requires libgl
:: lincity-ng: requires libgl
:: mesa: requires libgl
:: warzone2100: requires libgl
:: xorg-server: requires libgl

So im too new to linux to figure this out by myself.  I dont even know if this is REALLY what i have to do.  Im pretty sure my xorg.conf is fine

this is here just in case its helpful

# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib/libGL.so is owned by catalyst-utils 8.02-1

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: replacing catalyst-utils with libgl?

If you are using the 'fglrx' driver, then you need catalyst and catalyst-utils.

If you are using the 'ati' or 'radeon' driver, then you need to remove catalyst, and catalyst-utils, and install libgl.