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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Downgrade fglrx issues

The latest fglrx and catalyst driver bring an evil bug with them that makes my Enemy Territory gaming impossible. (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40119)

Since switching to the open source drivers is not an option (for they perform badly and also they mess up my resolution and I can't fix it) I thought I'd downgrade to fglrx 8.40.x. But that didn't turn out to be that easy. After downgrading the package and the utils and trying to startx again I got some error message telling me that there is a version mismatch between the server and fglrx. I remembered reading somewhere that fglrx 8.42 is the first driver to support xorg-server 1.4. So I also downgraded xorg-server to 1.2. But when I then started X again I got a whole load of error message, basically telling me that everything is messed up.

So, is it impossible to downgrade anymore? Or am I just too stupid?

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

I recommend you downgrade to these versions:

fglrx-8.40.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
fglrx-utils-8.40.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-input-mouse-1.2.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
fontforge-20071002-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-1.2.0-5.pkg.tar.gz
mesa-6.5.2-1.pkg.tar.gz              
xorg-utils-1.0.2-4.pkg.tar.gz
synaptics-0.14.6-2.pkg.tar.gz

twizller

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From: Hamilton, ON

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 9

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

How do you downgrade the packages? I tried searching for the fglrx 8.40.4-2 driver, and cannot find it, nor xorg-server 1.3
Where would i be able to find the packages needed in order to downgrade?

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

You'll find most of those packages in the extra repository.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

@twizller
If you haven't cleaned your cache for some time there is a good chance it's in your cache anyway. Just "pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/$PKGNAME". It's all in the wiki.

@smurnjiff
Thanks, that list is what I needed.

djclue917

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Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 121

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

The latest fglrx and catalyst driver bring an evil bug with them that makes my Enemy Territory gaming impossible. (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40119)

Since switching to the open source drivers is not an option (for they perform badly and also they mess up my resolution and I can't fix it) I thought I'd downgrade to fglrx 8.40.x. But that didn't turn out to be that easy. After downgrading the package and the utils and trying to startx again I got some error message telling me that there is a version mismatch between the server and fglrx. I remembered reading somewhere that fglrx 8.42 is the first driver to support xorg-server 1.4. So I also downgraded xorg-server to 1.2. But when I then started X again I got a whole load of error message, basically telling me that everything is messed up.

So, is it impossible to downgrade anymore? Or am I just too stupid?

Downgrade to your last-known-working fglrx-utils release (no need to rebuild this), then rebuild the fglrx kernel module.

kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

@djclue917
Only downgrade the utils? Ok, but how do I rebuild the kernel module?

djclue917

Member

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 121

Re: Downgrade fglrx issues

Upgrade everything to the latest and greatest but stick with the last-known-releases of fglrx-utils and fglrx* (kernel module). Use ABS for the kernel module.