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Koiti

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Registered: 2008-05-03

Posts: 6

Catalyst 9.4 + Kernel 2.6.29 = No good

Hello!

I updated my system yesterday and my X stopped working. A fresh install (ftp/network) wouldn't work either.

After some research in this forum, it seems like the current versions of Catalyst and Kernel26 are not compatible with each other, so I want to know if there is some way to install a system using OLDER versions of these packages. Is there a "old" repository or something like it?

Since both are critical packages, by using older versions of them will I be able to upgrade the other software, other than editing every single PKGBUILD to compile older versions?

My video specs:

Ati Radeon X1650 Pro plugged into a old LCD monitor and a TV set (that's why I need proprietary drivers)

Cheers from Japan.

`dannyb

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From: /dev/null & aka Minnesota

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 34

Re: Catalyst 9.4 + Kernel 2.6.29 = No good

Off one of the mirrors I found an older version of the catalyst driver & utilities.

Driver=http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/extra/os/i686/catalyst-9.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Utilities=http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/extra/os/i686/catalyst-utils-9.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Hope this is what you are looking for.

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Catalyst 9.4 + Kernel 2.6.29 = No good

フォーラム に いらしゃいません!

Ati drivers support was dropped recently http://www.archlinux.org/news/439/
You may downgrade those packages, but that means you'll have to keep old versions of all packages that depend on the kernel and also old version of xorg-server xf86-input-evdev and basicly all packages that depend on xorg-server.
Working catalyst driver will be released with the next Ubuntu release Sadly ati only introduce working drivers for the newest kernel/xorg when a new Ubuntu is about to be released - They only support Ubuntu, as a distro, I think.
You may try this But I don't know if you'll have any success.

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