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26th January 2010, 02:09 PM
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Mine is working now (inspired by hajo01)...
Booted into runlevel 3 (CTRL+ALT+F2 would probably also work)
Log in as root
yum reinstall *catalyst*
livna-config-display --active off
restored my most recent backup of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
I'm not sure if "livna-config-display --active off" and restoring /etc/X11/xorg.conf were necessary, but my xorg.conf isn't quite default.
I think the reinstall part may have (somehow) done the trick.
Edit: B.t.w., here is a list of the files that were reinstalled (F11 x86_64):
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs-9.12-1.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-9.12-1.fc11.x86_64
kmod-catalyst-2.6.30.10-105.2.4.fc11.x86_64-9.12-1.fc11.1.x86_64
kmod-catalyst-2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64-9.10-1.fc11.3.x86_64
kmod-catalyst-9.12-1.fc11.1.x86_64
kmod-catalyst-2.6.30.10-105.fc11.x86_64-9.12-1.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs-9.12-1.fc11.i586
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26th January 2010, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by hajo01
Good news -- I got Catalyst 9.12 working properly on my system now. To fix the broken update, do the following:
- Upgrade to catalyst 9.12, boot.
- If your screen is black, switch to console with CTRL-ALT-F2
- log in. Make sure you have the file "/etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default" If not, don't continue but get this file first!
- Now, simply "rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb"
- Reboot, and voila!
Apparently, shame on ATI, the Catalyst 9.12 chokes on amdpcsdb being created by earlier versions. The driver will automatically restore the file on boot from the amdpcsdb.default. You may have to go through your settings in the ATI Catalyst Control Center, these are stored in the above file I believe...
@leigh123linux: Do you think it'd make sense to pull this into into a separate thread -- possibly with the install-instructions on page 1 of this thread? I believe in a month from now nobody will find this info given that the thread is now at 258 pages...
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That's my solution after update and black screen (no screen)
Thanks a lot for that 
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26th January 2010, 11:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hajo01
Good news -- I got Catalyst 9.12 working properly on my system now. To fix the broken update, do the following:
- Upgrade to catalyst 9.12, boot.
- If your screen is black, switch to console with CTRL-ALT-F2
- log in. Make sure you have the file "/etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default" If not, don't continue but get this file first!
- Now, simply "rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb"
- Reboot, and voila!
Apparently, shame on ATI, the Catalyst 9.12 chokes on amdpcsdb being created by earlier versions. The driver will automatically restore the file on boot from the amdpcsdb.default. You may have to go through your settings in the ATI Catalyst Control Center, these are stored in the above file I believe...
@leigh123linux: Do you think it'd make sense to pull this into into a separate thread -- possibly with the install-instructions on page 1 of this thread? I believe in a month from now nobody will find this info given that the thread is now at 258 pages...
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Thanks, post added to post #2
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27th January 2010, 10:53 PM
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Updated RPM Fusion packages for F-11 coming soon
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27th January 2010, 11:23 PM
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almost like ATI are forcing people to use the opensource Radeon driver
---------- Post added at 10:23 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 AM CST ----------
gonna suck for those people using Ubuntu 10.04 also
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28th January 2010, 02:54 PM
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That's my solution after update and black screen (no screen)
Thanks a lot for that
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Confirmed here too.
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28th January 2010, 03:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hajo01
Good news -- I got Catalyst 9.12 working properly on my system now. To fix the broken update, do the following:
- Upgrade to catalyst 9.12, boot.
- If your screen is black, switch to console with CTRL-ALT-F2
- log in. Make sure you have the file "/etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default" If not, don't continue but get this file first!
- Now, simply "rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb"
- Reboot, and voila!
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Worked like a charm, thanks a lot hajo 
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28th January 2010, 06:42 PM
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for me, that definitely helped. i had to reinstall some packages and I had to remake my initrd for the fourth time. if anyone is still having trouble, try this, it worked for me:
yum reinstall kmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs
init 3 (optional, but recommended)
mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`
rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb
aticonfig --initial -f
reboot
of course as root.... but yea, this worked perfectly for me, and took all errors away. thanks to the guys who first found the fix for this, hopefully my some-what different way can help others who still have problems.
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28th January 2010, 10:34 PM
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are the opensource Radeon drivers even useable?! ...i'm going nuts thinking that ATI isn't working to remedy this issue.
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28th January 2010, 10:47 PM
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are the opensource Radeon drivers even useable?! ...i'm going nuts thinking that ATI isn't working to remedy this issue.
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dont expect ATI to release a working driver in a Hurry for F13 either. but i think there is someone else using the opensource driver in this thread
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29th January 2010, 06:31 AM
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I'm actually not so sure how much ATI can be blamed for this problem. I didn't look at their original installer lately, but they may very well be deleting the /etc/ati/amdpcsdb during install, at least for selected versions -- I guess they know by which update the old DB creates incompatibilities.
The RPM-packager however has decided not to delete the file on upgrade with the argument that user's settings would be deleted when erasing the file. They have however indicated that the issue will be mentioned in the RPM's README and on their wiki. I leave it up to the individual to decide who's at fault, it's a grey area for me...
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How is it that Nvidia allways seems to support xorg servers latest version yet ATI lacks
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14th February 2010, 01:18 PM
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Hi guys,
I can confirm that it is actually possible to use catalyst in Fedora 12 if you downgrade your xorg from 1.7 to 1.6 (see terminal output):
However, I honestly cannot recommend this "solution" and you are seriously better off with either Fedora 11, VESA graphics or a nVidia replacement card. (I'm pretty sure I broke a couple of things)
Be patient. Just thought I should let you guys know
Edit: the startup applications fixed itself....
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