Problem Installing AMD Proprietary Driver.

jtag1458 · 2014-02-19 02:35:16

Hey Guys,

As the title says I am having a problem installing the amd catalyst beta driver. I tried installing it and it completely screwed everything up. Now I have a fresh install of Arch, and the only packages that I have installed apart from xf86-video-ati and xorg are enlightenment, lightdm, gnome, base-devel, and firefox. Im not sure what is wrong. The only thing it mentioned in the log was something about needing 3.8 headers, but if i am not mistaken Arch has 3.12. I also installed it on a linux mint system with 3.11 and it went without any issue. I believe that it is supposed to work on 3.12, but im not sure what I need to get it to install on my system. Any help would be much appreciated.

Rexilion · 2014-02-19 10:47:50

What method are you using to install? The installer from Ati or an (altered?) PKGBUILD from AUR?

Where exactly do you 'screw things up'?

Last edited by Rexilion (2014-02-19 10:48:52)

jtag1458 · 2014-02-19 14:32:21

I am using the beta installer from ati. When I first ran the installer it gave an error that said "Missing the Required Build tools" or something like that. The log said "Missing Kernel Headers". I had base-devel and the linux-headers package, so I ran it again with --force. It gave an error at the last part of the installation and the log said Missing Kernel Headers for 3.8. Then when I rebooted of course X didn't start, but it was doing something I have never seen before. It was flooding the shell something about AMD VI it persisted through shell login untill I shut it down again.

HalosGhost · 2014-02-19 15:01:35

Why did you feel the need to install it outside of pacman?
What possessed you to use --force before asking for help?

Forcing installation of anything can be a pretty bad idea (even when it is done through pacman). Forcing it outside pacman makes it significantly harder to troubleshoot.

But, unless you at least post some error output (please use code tags or a paste client like sprunge.us or ix.io), no one will be able to help.

All the best,

-HG

karol · 2014-02-19 15:01:54

jtag1458 wrote:

I am using the beta installer from ati

Please post a link to the AUR or some upstream download page.

Have you tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst-test/ ?

jtag1458 · 2014-02-24 16:44:26

Sorry for getting back so late. @HalosGhost I have always used the one that came directly from AMD and since this is my first time using Arch i did not know that I would run into problems trying to use it. As far as the --force thing goes. I had a "What the Hell Moment". @Archivist: catalyst-test worked, but my sound via HDMI does not.

aplay -l shows my HDMI:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I also tried aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav and it worked without any error.

I then tried creation an .asoundrc file like the wiki said https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … s_not_work and that did not work either.

Last edited by jtag1458 (2014-02-24 16:45:14)

Rexilion · 2014-02-24 16:49:48

You should show us the contents of ~/.asoundrc.

jtag1458 · 2014-02-24 17:06:48

I tried

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 0
  device 3
}

and

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3
defaults.ctl.card 0

The bottom one makes the HDMI disapear from the sound manager and causes aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav to spit out an error saying:

aplay: main:722: audio open error: Device or resource busy

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#1 2014-02-19 02:35:16

Problem Installing AMD Proprietary Driver.

#2 2014-02-19 10:47:50

Re: Problem Installing AMD Proprietary Driver.

#3 2014-02-19 14:32:21

Re: Problem Installing AMD Proprietary Driver.

#4 2014-02-19 15:01:35

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#5 2014-02-19 15:01:54

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#7 2014-02-24 16:49:48

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