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2k

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 76

[solved] Still having problems with ATI card

Hi there,

I posted a message over a week ago concerning issues that I am having getting my ATI Radeon card to function adequately with X

Currently i'm using the xf86-video-ati-6.10.0-1 driver however for some reason this doesn't work properly for my card (I had a similar problem in Gentoo that I could only over come by using the ATI drivers). The problem is that the screen is shifted 2.5 cms to the left and there is a 1.5 cm gap at the top of the screen and 1cm at the bottom of the screen, I realise that I could "fix" this by adjusting HPosition, Hsize, VPosition and Vsize. However I don't want to be altering the screen every time I use the computer.

So I have been trying to get the ATI drivers onto the system, I have solved most of the problems by running pacman -Syu

The problem that i'm getting when trying to install the ATI driver (catalyst) is the following

[root@Blackhp mike]# pacman -Sy catalyst
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: catalyst-utils conflicts with libgl. Remove libgl? [Y/n] Y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ati-dri: requires libgl>=7.2
[root@Blackhp mike]

If anyone knows how I can fix this it would be appreciated

Mike

Last edited by 2k (2009-01-26 01:00:00)

pointone

Wiki Admin

From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: [solved] Still having problems with ATI card

Remove ati-dri -- catalyst-utils should provide a suitable replacement.

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marcinkr

Member

Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] Still having problems with ATI card

pacman -Rd xf86-video-ati ati-dri libgl
pacman -Sy catalyst-utils catalyst

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2k

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 76

Re: [solved] Still having problems with ATI card

Nice one....

It appears to now work perfectly

Thanks very much!

Mike

molni

Member

From: Slovakia

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 12

Re: [solved] Still having problems with ATI card

Hi there , I have the same problem and after I removed libgl, installed catalyst and catlyst-utils from yaourt, I still cannot upgrade my arch.

[root@htpc pkg]# pacman -Su --ignore libgl
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace amarok-base with extra/amarok? [Y/n] 
:: Replace amarok-engine-xine with extra/amarok? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
:: ati-dri requires installing libgl from IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n] 
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: libgl: conflicts with catalyst-utils

OR

[root@htpc pkg]# pacman -Su 
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace amarok-base with extra/amarok? [Y/n] 
:: Replace amarok-engine-xine with extra/amarok? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: libgl: conflicts with catalyst-utils

but libgl is removed:

[root@htpc pkg]# pacman -Qi libgl
error: package "libgl" not found
[root@htpc pkg]#

I'm going mad...

[EDIT]: now what i did and resolved it meanwhile.
I needed to install libgl , then removed catalyst and catalyst-utils. Then made pacman -Syu. Then again I deleted libgl and ati-dri and xf86-video-radeonhd and it works.

Last edited by molni (2009-06-10 05:31:01)