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detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

ATI 2 drivers conflicting

Hey there,

a buddy of mine converted to linux and thank god that he has 2 pc's at home we managed to install and configure arch linux on his pc.

So far so good, now we're stuck at the point with the fglrx driver from ATI. :?

He installed first the ati-fglrx package but didnt manage it to use 3d acceleration and installed newest 8.28.8 with the 'ATI Driver Installer' from www.ati.com .
The thing was that the module fglrx wasnt loaded, so we banged our head, loaded it and now are stuck because the both drivers are conflicting.

He tries to start Warsow (the FPS game) and it prints te following error

ERROR: version mismatch - 2D module [8.28.8] incompatible with OGL client module [8.27.10].
libGL error: InitDriver failed

So we removed one of them (the one we know how to remove, package ati-fglrx).
But after this removal and a re-login the same error came up :?

So we want now to remove the ati-driver installed from the ati.com page, is that possible? thx in advance!

cheers,
detto

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: ATI 2 drivers conflicting

I think the installer from the main page comes with an uninstaller too... but I can't remember where they put it.

It seems you missed the 'ati-fglrx-utils' package which is requred along with ati-fglrx.

If you can find and run the installer, great, then the best way to tackle this is just to run

pacman -Sf ati-fglrx ati-fglrx-utils

and make sure there's nothing in /usr/X11R6/ left over from the Driver Installer.

Also - don't install or upgrade the drivers from within X, and before upgrading run

sudo rmmod fglrx

to ensure the kernel module is properly updated. You can modprobe fglrx after the update

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: ATI 2 drivers conflicting

Hey man

/usr/X11R6 doesnt existed at all, so what we did was:

1) logged in at ctrl+alt+f1
2) killall gdm-binary
3) rmmod fglrx
4) pacman -Sf ati-fglrx ati-fglrx-utils
5) modprobe fglrx
6) /etc/rc.d/gdm start && exit

..and finally (hurraaaay) things got working and 3d acceleartion does too

Thx for your help man!

cheers,
detto

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: ATI 2 drivers conflicting

glad you've gotten it running.