I have come to the conclusion that Arch isn't compatable with Vid card

Shadowmeph · 2008-06-12 16:51:50

well I think I figured out what happened but I am not totally sure .I got POed and reinstalled arch from scratch. I installed the Catalyst which installed the Catalyst Util and ran into a bit of a problem, every time I tried to change the vesa to fglrx I would get a blank screen on reboot so I experimented with my xorg.conf this is what I did just to see if it would work. I put # in front of the original settings ( I will clean it up later) and added the other settings.
#Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
#Identifier "Card0"
#Driver "vesa"
#VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
#BoardName "Unknown Board"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
#EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

#Section "Screen"
# Identifier "Screen0"
# Device "Card0"
# Monitor "Monitor0"
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 24
# EndSubSection

#EndSection
now it seems to be fully installed but when I went to build the ET package I noticed that one of the dependencies is libgl and if I install libgl (in which I had to have done the last time) it says "libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n]" so obviously since I had ET installed I had to have also installed libgl which removed the Catalyst-utils in which case the Catalyst driver wasn't working properly. needless to say that I can get the driver to work but I won't be able to install ET because then I would only have part of the Cat driver working. I wished I knew how Ubuntu gets around this.

Misfit138 · 2008-06-12 17:00:55

ATi and nVidia drivers provide their own GL lib implementations. libgl is only used with the open source drivers.

Shadowmeph · 2008-06-12 17:17:35

which sucks because ET needs libgtk1.2 ( in Ubuntu thats what it is called) which I cannot seem to find

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-06-12 17:17:57)

Misfit138 · 2008-06-12 17:23:55

Shadowmeph wrote:

which sucks because ET needs libgtk1.2 ( in Ubuntu thats what it is called) which I cannot seem to find

libgtk is totally different than libgl. Libgl is a library for openGL. libgtk must be a GTK library.
OpenGL is your software to hardware 3d rendering path. GTK is a software and DE toolkit.

Shadowmeph · 2008-06-12 17:58:54

hmm well to build the ET package I need the libgl but since you are saying that "ATi and nVidia drivers provide their own GL lib implementations. libgl is only used with the open source drivers." I should beable to just remove the libgl from the dependances line in the pkgbuild and it should work? ( yes that is a question .. sort of lol )

Misfit138 · 2008-06-12 18:11:04

Yes, it should build fine as long as you remove it as a depends. When ET needs OpenGL, ATi Catalyst should supply it.

Shadowmeph · 2008-06-12 18:23:08

well I built the pkg but the install keeps failing I am sure that the failure has nothing to do with the libgl it is something else

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-06-12 18:23:50)

Misfit138 · 2008-06-12 19:12:04

Please post the error.

Shadowmeph · 2008-06-12 19:49:21

well when I try to install my package doing this chmod +x enemy-territory-2.60b-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz then sudo pacman -U enemy-territory-2.60b-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
I get this
/usr/sbin/et-pbupdate: line 4: ./pbweb.x86: No such file or directory ( there is a director there )
chmod: cannot access `dll/*': No such file or directory

and if I try to install the original et ./et-linux-2.60.x86.run I get this
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Enemy Territory 2.60 Full Install..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
./setup.sh: line 191: /home/link/.setup9632: No such file or directory
./setup.sh: line 191: /home/link/.setup9632: No such file or directory
./setup.sh: line 191: /home/link/.setup9632: No such file or directory
either way I am not sure whats going on lol

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-06-12 19:52:19)

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