Arch linux - strange behaviour after installing fglrx
- by kosto
I have a problem with drivers on arch linux. I installed catalyst through unnoficial catalyst repo as wiki says.
pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
aticonfig --initial
After this operation i rebooted the system. KDM loaded succesfully, but when i tried to switch to console (ctrl+alt+1/2/3) i saw only some strange dots, like pixels from the text were splitted on the whole screen. I was able to go back to kdm and enter the account details tho. This gave me a hang just before kde loaded. Here's a video where i'm showing above actions. Anybody knows what caused the problem? I can still chroot to fix some issues. Thanks for interest.
http://glothriel.org/arch/arch_problem.ogg
same thing on gnome / gdm, that's my second try on installing catalyst on arch. Open drivers suck the battery 2x faster.
___________EDIT_____________
Ok, i found a sollution, so i'm posting if someone else shares my problem. Catalyst does not support KMS, so you need to disable it from grub. You must know where are your /etc and /boot paritions mounted. If you have only one partition for / it's even simplier. Mount / on /mnt
mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
where X is number of the partition where is your / installed
arch-chroot /mnt
nano /etc/default/grub
and add line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
save and quit
then run (this will delete your windows grub configuration)
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
umount /mnt
reboot
