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fmma

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From: London

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 25

where can I find 'old' version of ATI catalyst 8.11

I think I'm not the only person who can't use the current version of catalyst with arch64 (2.6.28 kernel).
It starts first time but on repeat starting it gives black screen and I can only reboot by log in with ssh.
The previous vesion of catalyst worked.
I tried to install 8.11 from the ATI page without success. The beta version 9.1 installs but server doesn't start (error, no screen found).

To my knowlege, the vesa driver can't be used with dual head setting, so an old catalyst version is my last hope. I couln't find a arch server which still hols the old package. Can anyone help me here ?.

Many thanks

fr

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: where can I find 'old' version of ATI catalyst 8.11

Get the PKGBUILD for the current version, change the version numbers and update/comment the md5sum.

leeyee

Member

From: Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 150

Re: where can I find 'old' version of ATI catalyst 8.11

Get the PKGBUILD for the current version, change the version numbers and update/comment the md5sum.

I built 8.11 catalyst following your method, but X won't start up with this package. There is a 2.6.27.patch in ABS, I'm not sure if I need to patch it. Simply change version number in PKGBUILD can make the package, but it's not work.

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Archlinux x86_64 on Thinkpad T400
Intel X4500MHD / ATI HD3470 Graphics, 2G RAM, 160G HD

fmma

Member

From: London

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 25

Re: where can I find 'old' version of ATI catalyst 8.11

Hi I was not able to rebuild PKGBUILD for 8.11 (i'm just a user). However here my intrem (hopefully ) silution:

First I start fluxbox via startx.

After exit X I have to

rm .Xauthority
sudo cp /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default  /etc/ati/amdpcsdb

With those steps I can restart X

I don't know what the steps do and I do not know if this can be automated (running whenever X is closed down).

Maybe someone can help here and knows why this method works ?

O'm on arch x86_64, kernel 2.6.28 with a HIS radeon 4650 card

leeyee

Member

From: Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 150

Re: where can I find 'old' version of ATI catalyst 8.11

Hi, fmma

Your trick doesn't work in my case, logout+restart X still cause system freeze. X server caught signal 4 (fatal error) when starting for the second time. This problem has afflicted me for several weeks, made me mad already. The laptop (thinkpad T400) worked totally fine with Ubuntu, it's Arch's simplicity made myself stick with it for now. I don't know how long can I bear to this any more.

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Archlinux x86_64 on Thinkpad T400
Intel X4500MHD / ATI HD3470 Graphics, 2G RAM, 160G HD