Thank you Tony (and Alec). Reinstalling with an 'aticonfig --initial -f'
worked. Thank you! I would not have thought to do that.
Paul
On 02/16/2015 05:17 PM, Hoffmann, Tony wrote:
> Did you try re-installing the catalyst driver? Sometimes xorg updates overwrite things the proprietary driver install had put in place earlier.
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> Just grasping at straws here.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: February-16-15 3:31 PM
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> Subject: AMD Catalyst Driver Broke
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> The minor update to xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-25.1.sl6.x86_64 broke the AMD Catalyst 14.12 (14.501.1003) graphics card driver. It boots up just fine displaying everything but at the end we get a blank screen.
> The terminal windows are not there either. It is the latest version of the driver and I am not certain what to do. The error message is
> (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed. Probably kernel module missing or incompatible.
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> I tried to downgrade X11 rpms but it says "Only Upgrade available on package".
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> The graphics card is XFX FX-775A-ZNP4 Radeon HD 7750 and it is in a Dell PowerEdge T110 II. Any ideas on what I can do? Thank you for your help.
> Paul