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This is probably super simple to fix, but I have no clue where to go from here. I installed Arch and set up Plasma 5 using elements from this guide: http://www.tecmint.com/install-cinnamon … rch-linux/ to install everything that I needed on the xserver side. I installed Plasma with the plasma-meta package, and have Gnome 3 installed through the gdm package.
My hardware is as follows:
Dell Precision 670 with 8gb of ram, dual Xeon 3ghz single core processors, and an AMD ATI FirePro v4800 (the workstation equivalent of an HD 5670)
After installing everything for my computer and rebooting, I logged into KDE/Plasma, and although SDDM appeared fine, something is really off with the actual Plasma desktop.
It is giving tons of artifacts when I drag windows, it appears to be in *supersaturated* 8 or 16 bit color, and it may be supersampling or antilaising or something turned way too high (I honestly have no clue, I'm really new to anything other than integrated graphics)
A live Kubuntu DVD works fine, and booting into an Ubuntu/Kubuntu install works fine as well, however on Arch everything is messed completely up
I'm trying to use the open source drivers as they will hopefully require fewer hoops to jump through down the road to keep running.
Output of glxinfo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwYn8 … sp=sharing
I've installed mesa, mesa-libgl, and am currently using xf86-video-ati (my GPU doesn't support -amdgpu as it's Pre-GCN)
If you need any more info from me please ask.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Not an oss radeon expert but have you tried [mesa-git] repo and packages from out there (note: debug packages could cause performance drop)?
[mesa-git]
Server = http://pkgbuild.com/~lcarlier/mesa-git/$arch
There's probably more help available @ oss radeon thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509&p=115
Last edited by Vi0L0 (2015-12-17 20:28:24)
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Thanks for the reply, I tried building it a day or two ago and got an error that it couldn't satisfy a dependency (package llvm-svn I think) and failed to build. I'll check over in the thread you mentioned and see if I find anything. I tried the proprietary drivers, but even after successful installation I wasn't able to use it and aticonfig --initial returned that there were no compatible adapters connected.
Last edited by sawyerbergeron (2015-12-17 20:55:13)
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Thanks for the reply, I tried building it a day or two ago and got an error that it couldn't satisfy a dependency (package llvm-svn I think) and failed to build. I'll check over in the thread you mentioned and see if I find anything.
It's complete repo, should work without building anything. I'm often using it.
I tried the proprietary drivers, but even after successful installation I wasn't able to use it and aticonfig --initial returned that there were no compatible adapters connected.
Even on 15.9 ie from [catalyst-stable] repo?
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I had tried building from the AUR for mesa-git, so thanks for the repo; I'll give that a shot and see how it goes.
And I tried both the normal catalyst repo, catalyst-stable, and I tried downloading all the 15.7 packages and installing them: same thing, no dice.
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On catalyst if can't generate xorg.conf check csslayer method:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 18#p927018
and put 20-fglrx.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
20-fglrx.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
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Tried installing mesa-git from that repo, and although it installed I'm having the same problems as I had before. I'll give the proprietary one another go and set it up with what you just posted.
Oops. Forgot to run pacman -Syyu, just started and it needs to replace a bunch of stuff
Just rebooted and it's back to square one.
I'll go through installing the proprietary drivers and if I run into issues I'll ask.
Last edited by sawyerbergeron (2015-12-17 22:30:06)
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OK: thought I had installed everything and it now seems after reboot that I can't login with correct username and password. I have no clue what is happening to my system right now. Installed linux-lts, linux-firmware, linux-headers and linux-lts-headers, rebooted, then ran catalyst hook and then tried running aticonfig --initial, but it said no compatible adapters were connected. I rebooted seeing if doing that would work and now I'm stuck.
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Stuck? You mean can't login? If you got access to bootloader you can always hack it somehow, iirc I was using something like init=/bin/bash kernel option to login as root without entering password. Not sure if it's still working, feel free to Google. You can also always use livecd, mount partition and change pass, or add new user etc.
Last edited by Vi0L0 (2015-12-18 15:45:58)
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Stuck? You mean can't login? If you got access to bootloader you can always hack it somehow, iirc I was using something like init=/bin/bash kernel option to login as root without entering password. Not sure if it's still working, feel free to Google. You can also always use livecd, mount partition and change pass, or add new user etc.
I'll probably just reinstall. The system was clean before I tried installing the drivers so there isn't much I'll lose by doing so. I'll try that and then try installing the drivers again, logging and documenting everything.
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Today I spend installing the catalyst drivers. Because I have an older HD5k card I ran into trouble and used:
There's also archive repository in case of problems:
[catalyst-stable-15.9-gcc49]
Server = http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/archl … lyst/$arch
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/catalyst/$arch
Thanks very much for these repo's and of course for the info in this thread. I now have a working system, that is able to run games in wine.
However,
I cannot get to the tty's and I read that there is a package I can install, but I forgot where I read it. Can anyone point me to the package? (I found it: uvesafb)
I have three identical screen in a horizontal setup. But only the cursor uses the other two screens. As I read somewhere that Gnome might be the problem, I tried patching cogl with the gnome-catalyst-back repo. However, it fails on catalyst utils requiring xorg.server <1.18. I have 1.17 installed, so I am kind of at a loss. How do I patch gnome and is it an solution to my problem? But I am not able to have the window manager manage all three monitors. In Gnome and Enlightenment I only have one screen managed by Gnome and the other two show the typical x-windows mouse cursor. In LXDE I have only one managed by LXDE and the other two have independent desktops with X's as mouse arrows. On those desktops I can open programs, but I can not manage the windows ( no minimize nor maximize)==No window manager.
So how can I get a window manager to manage all three monitors as one big desktop? (xrandr nor aticonfig have any impact on managing those other two screens. All worked nicely under the non-AMD driver. I just wanted to try and see whether wine would run more smoothly with this driver. They do! But I would rather reduce the impact on normal desktop usage.)
Last edited by Markismus (2015-12-21 21:36:34)
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Last time I checked multiscreen setup was more than a year ago (don't have 2nd screen atm), but it worked out of the box, just had to configure it in amdcccle and then save it in kde's systemsettings.
If it's not working with amdcccle, maybe initialize it first with `aticonfig --initial=dual-head`. Another idea is to downgrade xserver to 1.16 with [xorg116] repo (catalyst 15.9 doesn't support 1.17 that well, look at tty bug).
Also you probably don't have to use this archive gcc49 repo. [catalyst-stable] should work well, as for now there's catalyst 15.9 there with 5 6 k support. (still switch to stable repo probably won't solve multi screen problems)
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@Vi0L0 Thanks! Will try to downgrade first.
Can't seem to get [catalyst-stable] to work, so I was rather glad with your post about [catalyst-stable-15.9-gcc49]. How should I get a package from stable? (I installed catalyst-hook without a hitch from stable. So I think that last time I tried to install a package named 'catalyst' from stable, which didn't work.)
EDIT: I have downgraded but still no luck. I use xorg-xrandr 1.4.3-1 (xorg-apps xorg) with xorg-server 1.16.4-1 (xorg). Do those work together? Because I can't change resolutions on the other monitors with xrandr:
$xrandr --output DFP4 --mode 1280x720 --rate 75
xrandr: cannot find mode 1280x720
(Package xrandr was last updated on 2014-08-02. So it's older than xorg-server 1.16)
Last edited by Markismus (2015-12-22 12:04:42)
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I seem to have a improvement!! Great. Just great! Small steps and such...
My current xorg.conf:
~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 1
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" 1280 1
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-2" 2560 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP3"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP4"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
Option "Monitor-DFP4" "0-DFP4"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP3" "0-DFP3"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-2"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP1" "0-DFP1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 2
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-2"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-2"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I now have xorg-server 1.16, catalyst-hook from [catalyst-stable] and lxde.
I have thee monitors in the correct horizontal position: I can move my mouse cursor from left-to-right over all screens.
I have my desktop content on all three screens.
I can open documents on each screen. I can now change their window position. However, I cannot change their size, nor maximize or minimize.
I cannot move windows from one screen to the next.
I would like to move windows over all three screens with full control of size and position.
I also would like xrandr to respond normally. I can now only address one monitor:
[~]$xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1280
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP4 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
1280x960 75.02 60.02
1152x864 60.02 75.00
1280x768 75.02 60.02
1280x720 75.02 60.02
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
640x480 75.00 59.94
CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
What to do? So I enabled xinerama again. Last time the system locked up so tight, I had to edit the kernel line in grub and add a '3' on the end to get back at a prompt. So I stalled using this. But since xrandr didn't work in any meaningful way, I braced and tried again. Now everything is working in LXDE. Everything works. Everything works!
Thanks for your support Vi0l0!
Last edited by Markismus (2015-12-22 14:24:18)
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Not everything works. Kodi, LXDE, KDE/Openbox work. Gnome immediately tells me everything has been disabled as a precaution and gives a button to log out. Plasma seems to work, but there is no interface to open programs or whatnot. (Maybe plasma-desktop is a little too limited an installation.) Enlightenment crashes immediately back to LXDM.
So any idea how to get GNOME working again? I really like the interface. I've start by downgrading cogl to 1.14.0-4. No luck, though.
Last edited by Markismus (2015-12-22 14:24:56)
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I use the [catalyst-total] package. I'm wondering if this will be updated with the 15.9-8 version that the standalone package has?
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I use [] brackets to describe repositories, but ok. If you mean catalyst-total@AUR then the answer is no - it will be updated to 15.9-9 with initial 4.4 kernel support. In fact it happened seconds ago :>
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any significant performance boost that comes with 15.9-9? from the pre-crimson drivers?
How it compares to the OS ati driver?
AMD 7850 - not sure which driver has better performance.
Last edited by d00maz (2015-12-23 16:01:02)
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I have a problem with black game windows/screens on two of my three monitors. When I have a game in windowed mode, I can drag that window across all screens. It's black on the left and middle and gives a lovely image on the right. Unfortunately, some games are not windowed and start on the left.
How would I move a full screen game to the most right monitor?
What could be the reason that only the right displays games? Can I change it to another screen or to all? This last one would allow me to do three monitor wide screen gaming like I had in Windows.
My xorg.conf is that of post #7264 with 'xinerama=on'.
Should I be posting this question here or would it be better in another thread dedicated to gaming?
Last edited by Markismus (2015-12-23 16:19:38)
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Hi, people of arch with amd cards.
I have Radeon HD 6770M card with Integrated Intel HD 3000 on my HP pavilion laptop. Is it normal to have 3500FPS in glxgears?
Steam Games show me the half performance of the Windows video drivers.
Tested games; Linux FPS; Win FPS; Translation Layer;
Dota2(Low Details) ~50 ~100 SteamWine
Dota2(High Details) ~20 ~50 -
Heroes of the Storm(Low) ~12 ~65 Wine(Didn't research setting OpenGL Renderer)
Tried catalyst-test (15.11) then downgraded to catalyst-total(15.9). Haven't tried open-source drivers. I am using 3D art and animation creation softwares as Autodesk Maya and Foundry Nuke, so I have to sqeeze every drop out of GPU and CPU.
I have these warning messages:
[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1830
[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1831
[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1832
[fglrx] IRQ 40 Enabled
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:f7b4000, size:4000
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:f7b8000, size:548000
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:3fff3000, size:d000
and these intel HD Gx messages:
pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
and these errors:
[drm:intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A
[drm:intel_pch_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun
[drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun
which I believe have to do smth with my screen blanking and flickering issues that was also on Windows and Mac. Man, I am having too many issues with my laptop after 2 years from buying it. It is 4 years old now.
I haven't tried to set nomodeset as I have Intel IGx. I use Clover bootloader to use GPT HDD and install Mac. Can somebody look through my clover config, If uses Clover. Here is the link:https://www.dropbox.com/s/ybio24d8ii0m2jj/config.plist?dl=0
Especially I need to disable passing boot Arguments to Linux. Actually, I think to disable it by deleting from Global and adding it to AddArguments to OSX Entry, but I am not sure about Injections and etc.
BTW: thank you Vi0L0 for updating catalyst-total. I had to use catalyst-hook patches on it, along with catalyst_build_module to build without gcc49 which took me 1 hours to figure out. I could use pacman with Rdd option to delete catalyst-test, but the idea came later.
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I after have tried all bits known to me for preventing my laptop overheating due to AMD graphic cards with open source driver I am seriously thinking to install proprietary AMD Catalyst driver from Vi0L0's repositories. I have hybrid graphics in my laptop with discrete and IGP both being amd. The graphic card built into CPU (IGP) is 4xxxx series ([AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]) where as the discrete is 5450 series. Now my dilemma is that which version of catalyst to install given that AMD has separated the drivers for 4xxx and 5xxx series. All the discussions and wiki talk about Intel/AMD or Intel/Nvdia or AMD/Nvidia hybrid graphics scenarios. I have been unable to find anything related to my scenario i.e AMD-AMD hybrid with one being 4xxxx and other being 5xxxx. Any clue on solving this scenario would be very helpful. What version or versions (if two drives needed) to install.
I intend to follow steps given in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst. Also I mean to ask in the above post that is it possible to install two drivers catalyst and -stable and catalyst-hd234k (one for internal 4xxx and the other for discrete 5xxx). OR the only option is to install the catalyst version lower than 12.4 where the 4xxx and 5xxx got diverted. I I have to install a version lower than 12.4 the what is the name of the repository to add ((for example catalyst-stable-12.3 ????)
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Well, I've downloaded SOMA and tried with the open source AMD drivers (HD6850), everything works ok until the 3D stuff. Here some screenshots:
http://s7.postimg.org/dfbc59q5z/SOMA3.jpg
http://s7.postimg.org/x8nfxz3jr/SOMA1.jpg
http://s7.postimg.org/bxpvtplfb/SOMA2.jpgI'll wait until they fix that, in the worst case I'll make a dual boot with some ubuntu derivative and install the crappy Catalyst.
Now it works perfectly with this patch: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/m … 03647.html
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I after have tried all bits known to me for preventing my laptop overheating due to AMD graphic cards with open source driver
Looking at your posts, you missed atleast 1 option : ask help on forum.
Someone else will have to answer whether it's possible to use 2 versions of catalyst simultaneously,but keep in mind you'll also have to use xorg 1.12 .
That means you miss a lot of improvements in X
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky
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Someone else will have to answer whether it's possible to use 2 versions of catalyst simultaneously,
Yhym, never heard about such things. Then one fglrx kernel module would work on one older card, and other fglrx module on another newer card? Not to mention all this mess with the libs and problem of telling fglrx modules which lib to use... Sounds interesting , rather hard to acomplish.
It would be the best if you could just turn off the older gpu , and jump to lets say catalyst 15.9, but I guess it's not possible.
And if it's not possible then catalyst-total-hd234k@AUR is the best and probably only option
(please note that [catalyst-hd234k] repo is out of date, it will be updated after succesfull tests of a package mentioned in the last comment of catalyst-total-hd234k@AUR, so for now just use AUR version)
plus ofcourse
keep in mind you'll also have to use xorg 1.12
BTW Let me just remind that mirror.rts-informatique.fr will be closed down in the last day of this year. I think I will buy some VPS, just don't have time to configure it now, give me some time, probably like 2 or 3 months :-/
For now please use other mirrors
Also: happy news for me was that just before christmass my plasma glitches were fixed by plasma 5.5.2 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182
Last edited by Vi0L0 (2015-12-28 21:57:24)
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Hello
I have problem with build fglrx module for linux 4.3.3-2. Every attempt is ended by status failed.
When I downgrade kernel linux to version 4.2.5 everything is ok and module fglrx is build ok.
I try to reinstall catalyst drivers but it didn't help.
@Vi0L0 could you give some advise to repair this problem?
Building fglrx module for 4.3.3-2-ARCH kernel ...
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OsVersion says: SMP=1
file /proc/kallsyms says: SMP=1
file /usr/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH/build/include/generated/autoconf.h says: SMP=1
file /usr/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH/build/include/generated/autoconf.h says: MODVERSIONS=1
file /usr/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h says: COMPAT_ALLOC_USER_SPACE=arch_compat_alloc_user_space
make: Wejście do katalogu '/usr/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH/build'
CC [M] /tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.o
/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.c: In function ‘firegl_major_proc_read’:
/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.c:571:16: error: ‘m’ undeclared (first use in this function)
seq_printf(m, "%d\n", major);
^
/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.c:571:16: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
scripts/Makefile.build:258: polecenia dla obiektu '/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.o' nie powiodły się
make[1]: *** [/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV/firegl_public.o] Błąd 1
Makefile:1378: polecenia dla obiektu '_module_/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV' nie powiodły się
make: *** [_module_/tmp/catalyst.dM5CtV] Błąd 2
make: Opuszczenie katalogu '/usr/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH/build'
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