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#1 2011-06-30 23:29:27

Jabrick
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Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Hey I was trying to get Starcraft II to work on my laptop, but unfortunately the lag is unbearable, I cannot even get logged in. So I have to decided to switch the open-source driver to the proprietary driver for my ati hd 5870 graphics card.
I have tried yaourt -S catalyst but I come to a point where it says:

catalyst-utils and libgl are in conflict. Remove libgl?

So I tried pacman -Rd libgl and i get

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ati-dri: requires libgl
:: lib32-libgl: requires libgl
:: libva: requires libgl
:: mesa: requires libgl
:: mplayer2: requires libgl
:: qt: requires libgl
:: xorg-xdriinfo: requires libgl

I read somewhere I must use pacman -Rdd instead to get it off my computer.
But I'm worried that if i do I will mess up my computer, and I won't be able to use mplayer anymore.

Can anybody please give me some advice for switching my drivers.
Or if there is a way I can choose which driver I want to use on boot?
Help it greatly appreciated!

Last edited by Jabrick (2011-07-01 15:56:46)

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#2 2011-06-30 23:40:39

ilusi0n
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

If you want to install catalyst you need to remove libgl so...
Remove it and install catalyst. I did it, didn't had any problems.

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#3 2011-07-01 02:59:36

Jabrick
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Everything worked as normal?
As well as mplayer? (If you use it to begin with)
I just don't want to fall into some trouble because I don't have so much time on my hands lately, and still a newbie in linux smile
Is it also easy to switch back to open-source driver if need be?

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#4 2011-07-01 04:06:02

jorel1981
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Hi,

I have a Ati 5770 working great!!
Just follow this guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst

But i didn't use the AUR driver, i just installed the catalyst repo and that's all

Good luck!


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#5 2011-07-01 08:49:33

ilusi0n
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Jabrick wrote:

Everything worked as normal?
As well as mplayer? (If you use it to begin with)
I just don't want to fall into some trouble because I don't have so much time on my hands lately, and still a newbie in linux smile
Is it also easy to switch back to open-source driver if need be?

Yes I used mplayer. I think I' lucky because I didn't had, yet, any serious problems with catalyst. And for any reason you want to go back to opensource is the same procedure. It's very easy without any problem wink
You can use the reppository of catalyst like it was mention above smile

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#6 2011-07-01 14:27:35

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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Everything will still work because catalyst-utils provides the libgl dependency. If something conflicted with libgl without providing its own GL library that would be strange.


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#7 2011-07-01 14:56:03

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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Before you install catalyst, remove _all_ the xf86-video-* and *-dri packages, Then just -Syu catalyst-whatever catalyst-utils from the catalyst repo, and pacman should handle the libgl replace fine without user intervention.


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#8 2011-07-01 15:18:26

Jabrick
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Thank you for the support everybody, I went ahead and installed the catalyst driver from the repository mentioned in the guide.
I rebooted and SLiM didn't start so I used
aticonfig --initial
It created an xorg.conf
I then rebooted and not after it boots I get a white flash and the screen turns off.
HELP!
I can't even access my virtual console!!!
Is it possible to go back? Recover my computer from a previous time??

--Panicked arch user

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#9 2011-07-01 15:19:27

Mr.Elendig
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Did you disable kms as the wiki said?


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#10 2011-07-01 15:22:06

Jabrick
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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Did you disable kms as the wiki said?

....
No I didn't!!! sad
Is there anyway I can reach my xorg.conf to disable it???
Thank you so much for the quick response!

UPDATE: So in grub i added "3 nomodeset" to the end of my  kernel line and I am able to boot into my computer again.
I added the lines Mr.Elendig suggested and my /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option "UseInternalAGPGART"     "no"
        Option "KernelModuleParm"       "agplock=0" #AGP locked user pages: disabled
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Unfortunatley I still cannot boot normally after the adjustment.
Does anyone know what steps I should take to fix my computer?
Thanks again for the support.

UPDATE 2: Forget it smile ati proprietary drivers slows down my xmonad anyways. Too much headache and starcraft still didnt work.
                I got the opensource drive back and learned alot smile Thanks everyone.
                I will now attempt to dual boot win7. (Which i have tied previously it was a nightmare, was never stable)
                Wish me luck!

Last edited by Jabrick (2011-07-01 16:46:06)

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#11 2011-07-02 13:39:56

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Re: Switching to ATI catalyst drivers [Black screen of death]

Good luck!

About adding the "nomodeset" line. You mean that you can boot into your system with proprietary drivers but only when you add that manually at the bootloader screen? You can also put it in your /boot/grub/menu.lst so it's automatically added every time.


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