How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

dancer69 · 2011-08-07 08:31:40

I have installed kernel 3.0 because I need the drivers for my tvcard.
I've tried to install catalyst from catalyst repo, but I couldn't get to graphical enviroment
I've tried to install directly the .run package with same resaults.
I think that something missing, because I've successfuly installed this driver on previous kernel in other distros.
Now I'm using the xf86-video-ati but I have some problems and I want to try fglrx.
I'm on an 64bit installation

Is there any ready package which can install the driver on kernel 3.0?
Or a workaround for install it from .run package?

Last edited by dancer69 (2011-08-07 08:32:37)

Inxsible · 2011-08-07 08:47:24

moving to [testing]

darthlukan · 2011-08-07 11:18:37

I followed the arch wiki article Catalyst .

For my setup running HD6970s on AMD 64 I chose to install:

catalyst
catalyst-generator

And associated libs. After they were done I ran

$ catalyst_build_module 3.0-ARCH

And rebooted.

For more info, check the wiki article, it took me a few times reading it over before I figured out what steps I was missing, it helps that some people in IRC helped point me to what I had forgotten (catalyst_build_module <kernver>).

I hope that helps.

dancer69 · 2011-08-07 13:30:37

I used a similar wiki page(more recent I think)
when I first tried.
Anyway, this time I installed a catalyst pack from AUR repository
which installed without errors.
The problem was that when I rebooted I get an unresponsible system with blank screen.
So I read again some infos from catalyst wiki and I found that fglrx module not automatic loads.
By using

modprobe fglrx

I load it and I run glxgears after startx, which runs fine.
After this I edited rc.conf and add fglrx to modules section and reboot.
This time graphical enviroment loaded but no the gnome3
Conky window started without transparency and by running nautilus from tilda I found no window manager loaded too.
When I run manually mutter windows decorations appear again but gnome-shell still doesn't run.
I don't know why this happens.
How can I restore gnome3 to previous status?
Any Ideas?

EDIT:
This is the error when I run gnome-shell from terminal:

gnome-shell

(gnome-shell:7797): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to find suitable fbconfig for the GLX context
Window Manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

EDIT2:
By blacklisted the radeon module in modprobe.d the system boots to graphical enviroment, but still
I get the above error and gnome3 doesn's load

Last edited by dancer69 (2011-08-07 15:14:31)

Cdh · 2011-08-07 15:43:25

First, forget gnome shell with fglrx. AMD for some reason didn't manage to put support for gnome shell in catalyst 11.7.

Then, are you sure your X uses fglrx?
A short test is

chris@chrisl ~ % fglrxinfo
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6500M/5600/5700 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10907 Compatibility Profile Context

I have not read it here: Did you create a xorg.conf file with

aticonfig --initial

?

dancer69 · 2011-08-07 23:35:29

Yes.

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4

And I've created xorg.conf file.
I cannot even run fallback mode.
So I'll need another enviroment

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#1 2011-08-07 08:31:40

How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

#2 2011-08-07 08:47:24

Re: How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

#3 2011-08-07 11:18:37

Re: How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

#4 2011-08-07 13:30:37

Re: How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

#5 2011-08-07 15:43:25

Re: How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

#6 2011-08-07 23:35:29

Re: How to install catalyst fglrx on kernel 3.0ARCH?

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