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Stromblad

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Registered: 2009-09-12

Posts: 70

Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

Im an ubuntu refugee and a nub-zilla i will try to include as much information as possible and hope fuly get some help. Thanks in advance!

Arch x86_64

I am attempting to install the propietary ati drivers using yaourt from aur

I have base and base-devel installed (notsure if that matters)

to find it i issed th command: yaourt catalyst-utils

the first option is the one i attempt to install

yaourt -S /aur/catalyst-utils 9.8-1

everything goes smoothly until the very end

"Finished making: catalyst 9.8-1 x86_64"
"Continue installing catalyst utils? [Y/n]
y
Password
"loading package data..."
"checking dependencies..."
"error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet"
"error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U"
"error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)"
": : catalyst-utils: conflicts with libgl"
==>WARNING: You package is saved in blah blah blah

any suggestions as to how to get this working would be amazingly helpful, im such a nub that im not sure which part of all of this information is useful
anyway thanks again!

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

pacman -Rd libgl
pacman -U where/your/package/is/saved.tar.gz

Last edited by sand_man (2009-09-12 02:46:47)

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ldvx

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 33

Re: Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

I have another problem. I install everything properly, reboot my system and dmesg shows fglrx has loaded fine (added it to rc.conf). But when I startx my monitor is left black and my system unresponsive. Cannot get a log for this attempt of x session (not even with startx > xlog). And following the wiki does not solve my problem (it says to delete /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.

Kernel: 2.6.30-ARCH x86_64
X: xorg-server 1.6.3.901-1

Last edited by ldvx (2009-09-12 03:06:08)

Stromblad

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Registered: 2009-09-12

Posts: 70

Re: Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

where did you get the fglrx module? i got it installed thanks to those commands (thanks sand_man) but the package does not include fglrx!

ldvx

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 33

Re: Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

Weird, I installed it removing libgl like sand_man said, then installed like this "yaourt -S catalyst catalyst-utils" (you have to remove libgl because the propietary drivers offer their own). Then modified the modules line in /etc/rc.conf to this "MODULES=(fglrx)". The AUR catalyst drivers should offer fglrx by default. I'm guessing "sudo modprobe -v fglrx" did not work for you?

Useful commands:
- lsmod |grep fglrx
- dmesg |grep fglrx