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#1 2012-11-06 11:36:33

joanmanel
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after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

It is a fresh installation. I just installed catalyst using pacman -S catalyst-dkms catalyst-utils and everything seems fine.

When I want to do "aticonfig --initial" it says:
Found fglrx primary device section
PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib64/fglrx': no such file or directory
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up....


The computer is a laptop dell inspiron 15r. The graphic card is ATI HD7700M

thank you!

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#2 2012-11-07 10:13:48

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

run as root
or try catalyst catalyst-utils (the new pkg gives me blank screen /w working keyboard after terminating x) HD 6770

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#3 2012-11-07 11:19:22

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

I run it as root. Same error

catalyst-utils is already installed

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#4 2012-11-07 11:21:38

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

packer -S [bold]catalyst[/bold] catalyst-utils

And I meant

pacman -S xf86-video-ati

as an alternative
apologies.

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#5 2012-11-07 13:25:27

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

packer doesnt exist in my computer. If you meant pacman, there is no package called catalyst. catalyst-utils is already installed but aticonfig is not working

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#6 2012-11-07 13:36:16

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

catalyst exists in the AUR (Arch User Repositories) and you will need an AUR package manager such as packer or yaourt, and I just found a pacaur I might checkout.

I believe this is your problem smile

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#7 2012-11-07 16:21:39

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

now it is installed, but it is not working, you can read the error log here http://ix.io/3kO

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#8 2012-11-07 16:38:04

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

c++

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#9 2012-11-07 17:03:57

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Can you explain me how to add nomodeset?

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#10 2012-11-07 17:16:07

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Fan

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#11 2012-11-07 17:31:52

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

what does this option mean?

by the way, thank you for all the help

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#12 2012-11-07 17:36:05

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Internal

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#13 2012-11-07 17:52:32

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

should I have the intel driver also installed? otherwise in startx it fails because it cannot find it

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#14 2012-11-07 18:11:43

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Aur

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#15 2012-11-08 09:05:14

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

I do not have any xinitrc in the home of the basic user.

the laptop is dell inspiron 15r. It has 2 cards, an intel and a AMD HD 7700m

(it is still not working)

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#16 2012-11-09 11:54:55

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Loaded

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#17 2012-11-11 11:11:37

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

As far as I know xf86-video-ati does not support my card (HD7700M).

By the way... nothing is working yet. I am giving up

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#18 2012-12-09 03:45:26

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

I also got the same graphics card HD7700M i'm still able to turn it on..   me too stuck with aticonfig --initial
I guess we both have same Inspiron 7520! R15?

I failed install with community packages.. now trying with AUR... lets hope it works!

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#19 2012-12-17 17:18:36

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Have the same issue (Dell inspiron 7520, Radeon HD 7730M). Laptop works somehow with intel-dri (xf86-video-intel), X shows errors asking me to intall vesa driver, but it works without it.
I had no success with catalyst 12.11 from testing, X requires intel driver

upd0.
I have success with catalyst-total-pxp from AUR, look at  "PowerXpress support" section  in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catalyst

upd1
I have success only with intel drivers, fglrx falls down with segfault

Last edited by OramahMaalhur (2012-12-23 13:01:54)


Слава Україні!

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#20 2012-12-18 09:34:09

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Could it be that, after installing catalyst and catalyst-utils you didn't have kernel headers (its listed as optional) installed so fglrx build command quietly failed so you dont have fglrx module built. Hence the aticonfig is unable to find it?

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#21 2013-01-05 12:52:29

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

finally I have success with my HD 7730M and catalyst
I had to downgrade xorg to 1.12 and install intel drivers as described in wiki  without disabling kms


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#22 2013-03-02 01:20:38

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Was able turn on my graphics card HD 7700M Series! Yay! using PowerXpress.

[rho@i7520 ~]$ fglrxinfo 
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 7700M Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.2.12172 Compatibility Profile Context 9.012

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#23 2014-01-04 23:59:09

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Re: after installing catalyst Aticonfig --initial fails

Has any of HD 7700M series users able to stand by/ hibernate ?
Mine freezes when i come of stand, but instruction given in the arch wiki isn't working. Any

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