installing the ati 5770 on current arch linux Thu Oct 14 2010

okay this is tricky but just take it step by step and youll be fine

very important : make sure gdm is NOT autostarting when you start up your computer! make sure its not in the damons.
when you start off it should look something like this
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal)

I'mm going to assume your working with gnome, gdm and latest xorg. im also going to assume you have yaourt installed, and access to the following repos...

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch


[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then install yaourt

pacman -Syu yaourt

then install the drivers

yaourt catalyst test

after thats done you need to run the script to actually compile your drivers, so type in

catalyst_build_module

and get the catalyst test package there, its pretty big and lives in germany for some such reason...

once thats all done you need to type in catalyst_build_module and actually compile the driver
NOW the part they DONT TELL YOU

sudo nano /etc/rc.conf

and go to your modules line and make sure the modules part looks something like mine

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(fglrx)


# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"


now the last thing to do is generate a new xorg file with aticonfig, so do...

aticonfig --initial

now you can reboot and login as root then gdm and it should start up all right

another thing, when your editing your settings, don't use the amd control panel icon in preferences, because that doesn't load up with administrative privileges and so you can't save the settings.

Instead to edit your resolution and refresh rate and 3d settings open up a terminal and type in

sudo amdcccle

now its time to reboot back into the terminal and you can fix up your /etc/rc.conf file and add gdm to the last line so gnome automatically loads