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Shadowfire

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Registered: 2013-06-26

Posts: 6

ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

I went through the proceedure of installing my ATI Radeon 5770 with wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … the_driver

Making sure to use the following repos in /etc/pacman.conf:

[catalyst]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/catalyst/$arch

and

[xorg113]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/xorg113/$arch

added keys with:
# pacman-key --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xabed422d653c3094
# pacman-key --lsign-key 0xabed422d653c3094

then I did the following

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils

I read all the info left after install  which told me to do the following to start some needed services for catalyst to run smoother

So I did the following:

#systemctl enable atieventsd
#systemctl start atieventsd

#systemctl enable temp-links-catalyst
#systemctl start temp-links-catalyst

aticonfig --initial

Then rebooted to command prompt sorta.  Anywho, I remember reading that it pointed me to using - catalyst-hook or catalyst-generator to get the catalyst-kernal setup and installed, so I:

#sudo pacman -S catalyst-hook

Didn't didn't show any major changes, so I rebooted.  At this point it desided to just go to a black screen (monitor's no signal) and I am unable to do a CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to TTY2.  I also tried to login remotely, but I am unable to find the IP and computer name with Angry IP Scanner.

Any ideas how I can get a console/terminal screen that will allow me tty access so I can type commands to change my ATI drivers?  (remember I am UN-able to do CTRL-ALT-F(keys)).

Thanks,
-SF-

Last edited by Shadowfire (2013-06-27 19:07:19)

Shadowfire

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Registered: 2013-06-26

Posts: 6

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

Since I am unable to get a terminal or cli.  I am guessing I will have to place in my Arch CD/DVD and do a recovery on the video driver... any thoughts on how I could succefully recover my video drivers with useing the Arch CD/DVD???

Thanks,
-SF-

Misanthrop

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Registered: 2013-06-25

Posts: 7

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

I've tried the same actions and it worked (except this issue).

Have you disabled KMS?

To get a console/terminal screen you can, for example, boot from USB, mount your hard drive, blacklist fglrx manually, reboot.
Or use something like this to disable fglrx.

Shadowfire

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Registered: 2013-06-26

Posts: 6

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

Thanks for the reply.  I will check out disabling fglrx or radeon. (didn't think of that at the time obviously) So thanks .   I am using Syslinux instead of Grub, so I will disable it in the

/etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf  with options radeon modeset=0  ( I would have to create)

link to Ati wiki ex:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … ooting_KMS

or

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with blacklist radeon  (this one already exists)       <----- I will probably try this one first.  Let you know what happens.

link to Catalyst wiki ex: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … stallation (just below

Thanks,

-SF-

Last edited by Shadowfire (2013-06-27 20:31:09)

Misanthrop

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Registered: 2013-06-25

Posts: 7

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

I'm using Syslinux too. To disable KMS I've added nomodeset to kernel params in /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.
If you want to blacklist conflicting module, I think it should be radeonfb.

Shadowfire

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Registered: 2013-06-26

Posts: 6

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

So, after reviewing:

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Troubleshooting KMS
Disable KMS

Users should consider disabling kernel mode-setting if encountering kernel panics, distorted framebuffer on boot, no GPU signal, Xorg refusing to start, Xorg falling back to Mesa software rasterizer (no 3D acceleration) or 'POWER OFF' problem (kernel 2.6.33-2)at shutdown.

    Add radeon.modeset=0 (or nomodeset, if this does not work) to the kernel options line in the bootloader configuration file. That should work.
    Note: Adding nomodeset to the kernel boot line might prevent GNOME 3's gnome-shell or KDE's desktop effects from running.
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it was the "nomodest" entry that allowed me to get back in to my KDE desktop on both monitors.... CRAZY!!!!  GRRRRRR!!!!

No but thanks Misanthrop for taking the time to acknowledge my question and give me a nudge to the answer.  Your awesome!

Thanks
-SF-

Last edited by Shadowfire (2013-06-27 23:48:23)

Misanthrop

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Registered: 2013-06-25

Posts: 7

Re: ATI Catalyst - catalyst-hook installed and now daul screens black

LABEL arch
	MENU LABEL Arch Linux
	LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND root=/dev/sda1 ro 5 quiet nomodeset
	INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img