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joaocandre

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Registered: 2013-02-23

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[SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

Suddenly, I'm unable to boot intoGnome, instead I am told rather enigmatically that Oh no, something went wrong!, leaving me only with the option of logging out. By logging with tty2,3,... I was able to see that on Xorg's log files there is an error thrown: fglrx module not found . I have an HD5770 graphics card with the catalyst drivers installed (through VI0L0's repository, not AUR) and I'm logging in automattically and running startx at boot, as per instructions on the Arch Wiki. The radeon module is also blacklisted as necessary for catalyst installation.

Xorg version is 1.16 and Catalyst 14.12.

I'm lost as to why this is happening, anyone with similar issues that can help me?

Last edited by joaocandre (2015-01-17 22:38:27)

fixles

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

Is the fglrx module loading?

$ lsmod | grep fglrx

Moo-Crumpus

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

Have a look if fglrx is loading at all, as fixles wrote.
Try to load the module manually if it is not loaded.

sudo modprobe fglrx

If it is not available, both should fail.

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joaocandre

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

fglrx isn't running, and I get the same "module fglrx not found" error if I try to start it with modprobe

clfarron4

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

@joaocandre: Are you using one of the Catalyst packages which allows manual regeneration of the fglrx modules (so catalyst-hook, catalyst-generator etc, but not the plain catalyst package) with the following command:

sudo catalyst_build_module all

Or are you using the catalyst-hook service?

My guess is that you also recently updated the kernel and you need to update the fglrx module to match the kernel module.

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joaocandre

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Registered: 2013-02-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot into Gnome

@joaocandre: Are you using one of the Catalyst packages which allows manual regeneration of the fglrx modules (so catalyst-hook, catalyst-generator etc, but not the plain catalyst package) with the following command:

sudo catalyst_build_module all

Or are you using the catalyst-hook service?

My guess is that you also recently updated the kernel and you need to update the fglrx module to match the kernel module.

Spot on. I also suspected it had to do with the kernel update, but I was under the impression that only if I installed catalyst from the AUR would the drivers need maintenance after kernel updates. Serves me right for not reading through the documentation thorugh to the end.

Many thanks