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drop.of.peace

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Registered: 2012-05-06

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[solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

Hello there. i've got a problem with catalyst and the new linux kernel at bootup, everything is okay, expect the autofglrx from the catalyst module.
i use archlinux a long time, the new installation is 3 weeks old, so this wasn't the first kernel or catalyst installation. But since the last update there went something wrong. There only was an issue with the catalyst driver and xorg, but this seems to be normal, to use an old xorg server.

I don't think the xorg server would be the problem to find the fglrx module at boottime:

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ uname -a
Linux Home 3.3.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 2 18:28:42 CEST 2012 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) II Dual-Core Mobile M500 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Sun May  6 18:16:04 2012: :: Checking fglrx    [BUSY] ^[[u: Building fglrx ^[[u: Loading fglrxFATAL: Module fglrx not fou
Sun May  6 18:16:34 2012:    [FAIL]

As you see fglrx builds sucessfully on boot and fails to load, you can see that it sucessfully build also here:

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ sudo catalyst_build_module
Building fglrx module for 3.3.4-2-ARCH kernel ...
Ok.

I don't know how to fix this problem :( here are the information to the depending packages:

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ yaourt -Qs catalyst
catalyst/catalyst-daemon 12.4-1
    AMD/ATI drivers. Auto re-compile the fglrx module (while system's start) if kernel was updated
catalyst/catalyst-utils 12.4-1
    AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers utilities and libraries with OpenCL implementation

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ yaourt -Qs xorg-server
testing/xorg-server 1.11.4-1 (xorg)
    Xorg X server
testing/xorg-server-common 1.12.1-2
    Xorg server common files

Last edited by drop.of.peace (2012-05-08 16:38:23)

drop.of.peace

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

Because the xorg mesa driver, which will be loaded at fallback, is totally instable on my laptop, i used a little workaround, but its not the clean solution to downgrade the kernel:

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ yaourt -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-*3-1*.tar.xz

after restart fglrx would compile and load normaly, it might happen, that the networkmanager doesn't run clearly, downgrade it too:

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ yaourt -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/networkmanager restart

I don't know, if i'm the only one who have this problem?

Last edited by drop.of.peace (2012-05-07 18:58:26)

Radioactiveman

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Registered: 2010-05-13

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

Why do you not use the catalyst repository? There is no need to compile the module if you use the default Arch kernel.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … repository

[rmoritz@Home ~]$ yaourt -Qs xorg-server
testing/xorg-server 1.11.4-1 (xorg)
    Xorg X server
testing/xorg-server-common 1.12.1-2
    Xorg server common files

seems wrong for me. They should be both at the same version (for Catalyst 1.11).

Make sure to use the [xorg111] and the [catalyst] repository without [testing].
Then run "pacman -Syuu".

Last edited by Radioactiveman (2012-05-07 19:50:28)

drop.of.peace

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

Why do you not use the catalyst repository? There is no need to compile the module if you use the default Arch kernel.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … repository

i use this repository, i only use catalyst-daemon instead of catalyst only, i used it a very long time without problems.

seems wrong for me. They should be both at the same version (for Catalyst 1.11).

Make sure to use the [xorg111] and the [catalyst] repository without [testing].
Then run "pacman -Syuu".

i will try that. hope this is the solution for it.

drop.of.peace

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

okay, with the new kernel update all works fine. i also downgraded xorg-server-common to the version in the xorg111 repository.
maybe there was something wrong, but i can't imagine, why xorg should be the problem or why im the only one with this problem on the old kernel. thats something ugly.

btw. thank you.

Radioactiveman

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

You're welcome. Please edit your thread title and add "[Solved]" to it.

Terminator

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Registered: 2012-05-07

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Re: [solved] FATAL: Module fglrx not found / catalyst-daemon boot

okay, with the new kernel update all works fine. i also downgraded xorg-server-common to the version in the xorg111 repository.
maybe there was something wrong, but i can't imagine, why xorg should be the problem or why im the only one with this problem on the old kernel. thats something ugly.

btw. thank you.

It didn't work because fglrx requires xorg-server<1.12.0.

If you would ever reinstall, I advice to try the open source drivers, they have improved a lot.