confused I Need help trying to install catalyst proprietary drivers

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-28 23:09:38

I am all confused I want to install the actual ATI drivers because they will allow 3d acceleration but I don't seem to be able to. I know that to install ATI's fglrx drivers I need to install the catalyst package. like so pacman -S catalyst then I downloaded the newest drivers from ATI not sure how to install them I tried ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run but nothing seems to happen . Do I need to build a catalyst kernel package?

SamC · 2008-05-28 23:18:49

Is ati-driver-install-whatever executable (chmod +x)? have you tried running "sh ati-..."? I'm just not sure what you mean by "nothing happens".

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-28 23:29:56

I do this command ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run ( I am thinking that this is the proper command to install the driver) in terminal and nothing happens I mean that literally
it doesn't seem to do anything I get no messages

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-05-28 23:32:13)

lldmer · 2008-05-28 23:51:59

If you install the catalyst package with pacman, you don't need to run the installer from ATI anymore. The driver in the repo is up-to-date with the ati-installer from the ATI website.
Al you need to do is install the catalyst package with pacman, and set you xorg.conf to use the fglrx driver.

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-29 00:00:04

ok this is what I did a few days back I opened terminal and typed in sudo pacman -S catalyst
, catalayst installed then I went into /etc/X11/xorg.config and changed the

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "[b]vesa[/b]"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"

to fglrx, logged out then tried to log back in but I couldn't so I have to change back to the vesa driver, is this what I was supposed to do and if so why am I having these problems ? lol

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-05-29 00:02:07)

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-29 00:03:11

Shadowmeph wrote:

ok this is what I did a few days back I opened terminal and typed in sudo pacman -S catalyst
, catalayst installed then I went into /etc/X11/xorg.config and changed the
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver     "vesa"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
to fglrx, logged out then tried to log back in but I couldn't so I have to change back to the vesa driver, is this what I was supposed to do and if so why am I having these problems ? lol

SamC · 2008-05-29 00:03:14

lldmer seems to know what he's talking about. However, if that doesn't work for some reason, you should be able to use the instructions below to run the file from ATI.

So, if I understand this correctly, you type "ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run" right after downloading it? I think you need to make it executable first. To do that, type "chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run". After that, you can execute it by typing "./ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run".

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-29 00:22:39

oh crap thats right I will try that I bet that will work Thank you both

Zerathidune · 2008-05-29 00:26:40

The configuration for the catalyst driver is a little more complicated than just substituting fglrx for the driver.

fortunately, ati provides a utility called aticonfig for doing this. after you install the catalyst package, do:

modprobe fglrx  # (this will load the kernel modules, without which the xorg driver won't work)
aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

I have found that sometimes (actually, every time I've tried it) I've had to also pass the --force option to aticonfig. do aticonfig --help for more detail. (also, my instructions assume you're only using one monitor.)

Shadowmeph · 2008-05-29 01:31:36

Thanks everyone it worked . all of this time ( a couple of full days) I tried and tried to figure out what is wrong I kept ready and ready and it ends up being something so simple lol

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confused I Need help trying to install catalyst proprietary drivers

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