Issues with Catalyst 11.12-1 and 11.11

SgrA · 2012-01-21 23:46:48

System:
AMD Phenom II X2 545 on Gigabyte M61PME-S2P (nVidia MCP61 chipset) and 4 GB DDR2 RAM. ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card.

On a fresh x86_64 Arch install, Catalyst 11.11 with kernel 3.1.9-2 and Catalyst 11.12-1 with kernel 3.2.1-1 just turns the screen black, and then monitor behaves as if system is shut down. The open source drivers seem to be working fine when catalyst is not installed.

I have installed X and wmii, also checked with twm, xterm and xclock.

Last edited by SgrA (2012-01-21 23:47:41)

Kodama · 2012-01-22 00:03:22

with Catalyst 11.11 you might have to check if it supports latest xorg version. (maybe you need to downgrade xorg). Did you follow the ati wiki? blacklisted radeon (http://www.archlinux.org/news/kmod-repl … nit-tools/), created a xorg.conf with aticonfig, put fglrx in rc.conf, nomodeset to kernel line, and of course rebuild it after kernel update?

Last edited by Kodama (2012-01-22 00:37:51)

Roken · 2012-01-22 00:45:04

On my first run through with Arch I had no end of problems with catalyst, and even on debian I had to work at it.

On arch I managed to get catalyst running well (even with the supposedly unsupported 3.2 kernel) by installing the Arch base, followed by xorg and my DE (xfce in my case) - and then catalyst before I moved on to anything else. I can't explain why, but it installed without complaining about dependencies, and is now working just fine.

I don't know if it's an option for you, but if a clean install could be on the cards, try installing catalyst as early as possible during the installation build.

EDIT: Oh, you have checked that nomodeset is added to your linux boot line?

Last edited by Roken (2012-01-22 00:46:09)

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#1 2012-01-21 23:46:48

Issues with Catalyst 11.12-1 and 11.11

#2 2012-01-22 00:03:22

Re: Issues with Catalyst 11.12-1 and 11.11

#3 2012-01-22 00:45:04

Re: Issues with Catalyst 11.12-1 and 11.11

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