2016-09-13 10:39 GMT+02:00 G. Schlisio :

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You should update the catalyst-hook package manually. The latest version supports Linux 4.7.

this is misleading, as there is no upgrade.

What about version 15.9-12? It adds a patch to make it compatible with Linux 4.7 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=catalyst-hook&id=1ed0d7e92f486d3b1bae49b9c43b34b29585d1c0

On 09/13/2016 01:42 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst via arch-general wrote:

2016-09-13 10:39 GMT+02:00 G. Schlisio :

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You should update the catalyst-hook package manually. The latest version supports Linux 4.7.

this is misleading, as there is no upgrade.

What about version 15.9-12? It adds a patch to make it compatible with Linux 4.7

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=catalyst-hook&id=1ed0d7e92f486d3b1bae49b9c43b34b29585d1c0

Thanks for the suggestion. Could you tell me how to apply this patch? I downloaded this patch, extracted it using tar, and then used 'makepkg -sri' to install it like any other AUR package. It installed fine but now this slightly modified error occurs while upgrading: :: catalyst-hook: requires linux<4.7

By the way, how did you install Catalyst? From the AUR or from Vi0L0's repositories? If you did it from the AUR, you should already know all this. If you installed it from Vi0L0's repositories, I think something else is going on, and you can ignore most of what was said in this thread. Is it[1] still in your pacman.conf? If it is, also note that you should upgrade with # pacman -Syu, not # pacman -Su. Good luck, Sebastiaan [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#catalyst

[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 : What about version 15.9-12? It adds a patch to make it compatible with Linux 4.7

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=catalyst-hook&id=1ed0d7e92f486d3b1bae49b9c43b34b29585d1c0

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!