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I get nothing but a black screen with white cursor where, posted on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225424

Yesterday I updated catalyst-test and xorg "broke" in a sense that it refused connections, but Xorg.0.log and journalctl -b didn't have any unusual errors, except a hint that there was some crash dump connected to xorg/fglrx (but this wasn't so obvious to notice, at least for me). I googled and tried all possible and impossible re/installations, but nothing helped.

I have a pretty unusual configuration with 2x R9 290x + Nvidia 1080 + xmonad + startix with xinitrc, but even plugging out nvidia card didn't help.

The solution (in my case) was to ** switch kernel to linux-lts (4.9).**! I didn't try this before because Vi0L0 is using 4.10, but in the end that segfault prompted me to try kernel 4.9, and that was the solution.

I can't post the actual outputs since there were so many things that I tried, but I hope this can help someone...

@pavanky what are the right mirrors now? I still can't install catalyst-hook

Edit: nevermind got it now... for anyone wondering you have to add this to /etc/pacman.conf:
[xorg117]
Server = http://mirror.hactar.xyz/Vi0L0/xorg117/$arch
[catalyst]
Server = http://mirror.hactar.xyz/Vi0L0/catalyst/$arch

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but did you forget to update the repos on wirephire ? The catalyst-hook package there still wants linux < 4.7

**EDIT:** Nevermind I just noticed that the mirrors changed. It's all good.

I forgot to give a feedback ViOLO. Never too late, I hope.

It was my mistake. I forgot to put the xorg117 on the top :-)
Repos are alright!

Thanks for the reminder!

If I would update this dependency and you will start catalyst on xserver 1.18 you will only see black screen of death.
It's because catalyst doesn't support xserver 1.18 and (for 99%) never will.

You can build xorg-server 1.17 from arch's git: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/snapshot/packages-e02b7fe044e46037ad80325fb9aebe3e7c39fa05.tar.gz

or use [xorg117] repo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Xorg_repositories

trying to install from your repo gives error cannot resolve "xorg-server<1.18.0"
plz upgrade xorg-server dependency

Repos are fine:

# LANG=C pacman -Sl xorg117 | grep xorg-server
xorg117 xorg-server 1.17.4-2 [installed]
xorg117 xorg-server-common 1.17.4-2 [installed]
xorg117 xorg-server-devel 1.17.4-2
xorg117 xorg-server-utils 7.6-4
xorg117 xorg-server-xdmx 1.17.4-2
xorg117 xorg-server-xephyr 1.17.4-2
xorg117 xorg-server-xnest 1.17.4-2
xorg117 xorg-server-xvfb 1.17.4-2 [installed]
xorg117 xorg-server-xwayland 1.17.4-2 [installed]

Make sure that you added [xorg117] repo above every other repo in /etc/pacman.conf

I also recommand using hactar.bz mirror as I cannot access wirephire anymore (xorg117 on wirephire works fine as for now but won't get any update):
[xorg117]
Server = http://mirror.hactar.bz/Vi0L0/xorg117/$arch

I have problems getting the xorg-server 1.17 work. It used to, but after a reinstall, it only installs the xorg-server 1.18.4.

Is there something wrong with your repos, ViOLO? I have tried both servers, without any luck.
I want my catalyst back!

hd 7770 is gcn so should work fine in both catalyst versions 15.9 and 15.12