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PrimoTurbo

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Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

I'm having a huge issue installing propietry catalyst drivers for my ATI HD4870.

I'm using the following drivers from AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22899

Here is my Xorg.0.log - http://pastebin.com/f74119635

I can a dependecy problem with libgl, I tried doing pacman -Rd libgl, catalyst and catalyst-utils get installed but do not work. I'm using an up to date kernel Linux arch 2.6.30-ARCH #1

Any ideas? Can I downgrade I really need 3D support, currenly using radeonhd works well but no gaming Thanks for any advice.

wonder

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Re: Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

seems that you didn't configured your xorg.conf to use catalyst driver. i see from your log that is tryinh to use radeonhd which is the opensource driver. you have to change into Device section, driver "fglrx"

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PrimoTurbo

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Re: Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

I might be posting the wrong log but perhaps I have made some serious mistake, trying again.

PrimoTurbo

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Re: Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

My bad I posted the wrong log. After running aticonfig --initial on a newly and empty created /etc/X11/xorg.conf I can start X with fglrx. However anytime I start an opengl app or run glxgears I get a hard freeze / lock and need to restart computer. Any ideas?

sp219

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Re: Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

Same problem here.

I believe it's an issue with 2.6.30 SMP kernels, downgrading to 2.6.28 should fix it.

There's a bug report over at the debian tracker here (that shows the relevant kernel crash lines, which may be helpful to solving the problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535653

PrimoTurbo

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Re: Problem with catalyst and catalyst-utils from AUR

How would I downgrade? I don't see 2.6.28 in AUR?