[SOLVED] Thanks for your help. FINALLY, I got catalyst working. I took many hours though. Here is what I tried (giving as much detail as possible to help others):
2016-09-13 10:39 GMT+02:00 G. Schlisio <g.schlisio@dukun.de>: What about version 15.9-12? It adds a patch to make it compatible with Linux 4.7
1- I tried this patch. Didn't make a difference. Still catalyst-hook was causing dependencies issue with linux4.7.
You should update the catalyst-hook package manually. The latest version supports Linux 4.7.
Regards, Sebastiaan
2- Removed all the catalyst packages. 'radeon' was blacklisted to fell back to console. Upgraded the system, and reinstalled catalyst packages. Tried Xorg 1.17 and 1.18. Result: Xorg won't start. Gave some errors. Googled those errors (Can't remember the error now). Tried a few things suggested on forums. Still no luck. 3- Tried 'amdgpu' package. After installing everything and setting up, found out that amdgpu doesn't support my card (R7 260x). I needed to rebuild kernel to enable support for my card. Settled on 'radeon' instead. 'radeon' didn't let me check my fan speed and temps so I kept looking around. On 09/14/2016 06:44 AM, Mrrob wrote:
I think the OP implied they are using the catalyst & xorg117 repos. This comment on the catalyst-hook AUR package indicates the repo has changed and updating your pacman.conf to reflect this new location may help:
Vi0L0 commented on 2016-08-20 23:51
Atm I'm unable to update wirephire mirror. Don't know when I will get access back. Please use hactar mirror: [catalyst] Server = http://mirror.hactar.bz/Vi0L0/catalyst/$arch
mrrob ---
4- Not sure, but I think that updating the catalyst repo link in my pacman.conf did the trick. Removed 'amdgpu', blacklisted 'radeon', and then installed catalyst-hook and catalyst-utils packages (15.12.3, i guess). Again added 'nomodeset' to kernel parameters and generated grub.cfg. And after almost 5 hours of cursing linux, I finally got my GUI back. Thanks guys for your help!