ATI Catalyst driver- Not building-

hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 04:00:43

Sorry I have been trying to install the Catalyst driver for 4hr's now and getting noware.

If I try it with yaourt the Catalyst package installs the "libgl" so the Catalyst-ustils will no work. So, If i try it from the Tar files the "utils" first it asks for xorg-server. If I install xorg-server it instals "libgl". If I try to install the "catalyst Tar it telles me I need to install "catalyst-utils" first.

What path do I take to find the easter egg?

I have a new elitebook 8530w with Mobility FireGL 5700

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hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 07:00:06

Well good times...
My first laptop with somewhat good grafics card and no 3D at all....

I installed xf86-video-ati

I think it is ****ing bull that Arch dosen't suport the catalyst.

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Wintervenom · 2009-05-15 07:45:44

Did you remember to pacman -Rd libgl?

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hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 07:51:04

Ya I tried installing Xorg then removing libgl but libgl is a dependicy of xorg....

or what is the -Rd << "d" about it is not in the pacman man page?

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blasse · 2009-05-15 07:51:33

Build catalyst utils with makepkg, build catalyst with the same command, remove libgl (pacman -Rd libgl) install catalyst utils (pacman -U pkgname.pkg.tar.gz), install catalyst (the same command), edit xorg.conf if you have one, restart X.

ps. libgl is dependency for xorg, but catalyst-utils provides own libgl. Thats why you have to use pacman -Rd libgl while removing.

hunterthomson wrote:

or what is the -Rd << "d" about it is not in the pacman man page?

-d skips dependency checks while removing :)

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hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 07:54:53

but that is the problem it will not let me do that.

Also, the catalyst package installes xorg and "All" the dependencys catalyst-utils as one with out removing of the libgl

I mite try downloading the just the source and buid it but I bet I'll run into a lot more problems.

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hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 07:58:14

OWE Ok so "d" is the answor... no wate catalist will still install libgl as a dependency.....

I'll mess with it agin tomarow with that new "d" flag at me disposal I think I mit beable to get it to work.....

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blasse · 2009-05-15 09:55:06

You have installed xorg with libgl, right? Starting from there - remove libgl with -d option (so it will not remove xorg), than install catalyst-utils - they are necessary and they provide libgl (so xorg or any other pkg that nedd libgl will stop complain). Last, install catalyst pkg.

Probably you could do this with command:

yaourt -Rd libgl && yaourt -S catalyst-utils catalyst

Last edited by blasse (2009-05-15 09:56:48)

hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 21:49:19

Cool ya it built now.

But now to the part to make it work. All I get is a back screen and (ctrl+alt+f2-6) not working.
I'll start reading up on how my xorg.conf file should work. I have none right now I was just letting hal do it.

Last edited by hunterthomson (2009-05-15 22:06:54)

hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 22:06:43

Well the log file only has two problems...

"Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
"Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

hunterthomson · 2009-05-15 23:33:10

Well now I tried using an xorg.conf but I get a strange problem...

here is a link to the xorg.conf file I am using exept I didn't put in the InputDevice stuff....
http://www.vinceliu.com/xorg.conf-dual

I also used this one and get the same error...
http://scribute.com/2009/03/arch-linux- … -xorgconf/

The error I get is...

Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Undefined Screen "Screen 1" referenced by ServerLayout "Default Layout"

(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal sever error:
no screens found

hunterthomson · 2009-05-17 00:15:38

working xorg.conf for elitebook 8530w with ATI Mobility FireGL v5700

Run this comand after install and after you put this xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

aticonfig --acpi-services=off

#
# Working xorg.conf for elitebook 8530w with Mobility FireGL v5700
#

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
    #    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    #    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option    "UseFastTLS" "1"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

kensai · 2009-05-17 01:37:44

hunterthomson wrote:

I think it is ****ing bull that Arch dosen't suport the catalyst.

I think that can be called the fact that catalyst doesn't support Linux at all, it just supports three or four outdated distributions, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu. And I think that is about it. Why bother with something that will hold back progress, 9.5 came out, no support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and we are about to get 2.6.30 soon.

hunterthomson · 2009-05-17 07:50:37

kensai wrote:

hunterthomson wrote:
I think it is ****ing bull that Arch dosen't suport the catalyst.
I think that can be called the fact that catalyst doesn't support Linux at all, it just supports three or four outdated distributions, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu. And I think that is about it. Why bother with something that will hold back progress, 9.5 came out, no support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and we are about to get 2.6.30 soon.

Ya, I realy think AMD treats OpenSource like wincrap dose. Like some second horse to dup work they don't feel like doing and to deliberitly make crappy so they can be like "see windoz is better if you want GOOD software you have to pay but we will give you this crap to show how nice we are"

But on the other hand "my hand" why take it out on the people that just didn't know or just needed to save money. If I had the choice to get the an Intel card I would have. I just don't think arch dev's should take it out on the users.

But with that said the AUR package works just fine.

However, now that I have it not crashing I have more problems. I think it would be an easy fix for someone who knows a little bit about this stuff. here is a link to the thread I started for it>>>

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72299

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