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Garf

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 23

[Solved] Kernel Update - Do I need to re-install Catalyst?

Hi....

Yesterday everything was going fine on my new AMD Fusion machine. Last night I did

pacman -Syu

and a new kernel was installed.

Now, I rebooted this morning, and I don't seem to have any graphics acceleration in kwin. My wobbly windows are gone, moving windows is incredibly slow and blocky, and (since I am using the netbook interface) when I click on the "running Applications" button, I only get a list instead of an image of all applications/work spaces.

So do I need to re-install or re-build the catalyst packages with the kernel update?

Last edited by Garf (2011-06-13 22:05:44)

graysky

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Re: [Solved] Kernel Update - Do I need to re-install Catalyst?

If it's a kernel module, then yes.  At each update of a three point release.

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Garf

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Kernel Update - Do I need to re-install Catalyst?

Ok Thanks...

I followed the catalyst wiki to install it, do I just need to do the following steps again?

cd catalyst-utils
makepkg -cs
sudo pacman -U catalyst-utils-*.tar.xz 
(or if you are updating: sudo pacman -Ud catalyst-utils-*.tar.xz)
cp ati-driver-* ../catalyst
cd ../catalyst
makepkg -cis

then

# aticonfig --initial
 (or for Dual Head: # aticonfig --initial=dual-head)
# aticonfig -v

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 388

Re: [Solved] Kernel Update - Do I need to re-install Catalyst?

Short answer -> yes
But much easier is using the Catalyst repo: click

Garf

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Kernel Update - Do I need to re-install Catalyst?

Thanks heaps...

Worked great