sddm will not start after the upgrade. about archlinux-amdgpu-pro HOT 9 CLOSED

@ianporter Add Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2016/01/10/$repo/os/$arch to your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and temporarily comment out the others. This will tell pacman to use the repositories from that date. Use pacman -Syy to update the database to the new mirror.

Then (after uninstalling any xf86- packages you have) you can use pacman -S xorg and select the whole group apart from xf86- packages, because which the video packages will cause conflicts. Install an xf86-input- package from the list though, you'll need one, probably libinput.
This will downgrade all xorg packages to the latest versions from the 10th of January 2016, which should include xorg-server 1.18*.

To use arch normally again after the install, you'll need to add IgnoreGroup=xorg to your /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment the servers you commented out in the mirrorlist, delete the server you added to the mirrorlist and run pacman -Syy again to update the database. This tells pacman to not upgrade xorg (which would break this driver version) but switch back to the new repositories.

The whole xorg group should now be downgraded successfully and you may install the driver. To update it in the future if need be, remove the IgnoreGroup=xorg line from pacman.conf.

Good luck :)

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I ran into the same PGP problem with ncurses5-compat-libs. I fixed it with the suggested method in the top comment on that package info page:

To import the necessary key execute the following:
gpg --recv-keys <KEYID - See 'validpgpkeys' variable in PKGBUILD>

I actually tried out sddm shortly after installing AMDGPU-Pro 16.60 and it worked, so I'd imagine getting those dependencies down for 16.60 would solve your issue. Other than that, make sure your xorg-server and xorg-server-common are 1.18.

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thanks very much for getting back to me so quickly.. I am at work, but shall try that out later :)

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To solve the PGP issue somewhat permanently, one could also add/enable

# auto-key-retrieve : automatically fetch keys as needed from the keyserver
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

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Thanks @brainpower, TIL.

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Thanks for the update.

I am getting this error upon trying to install the pro packages

:: xf86-video-amdgpu-pro and xorg-server are in conflict (X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION). Remove xorg-server? [y/N]

I would assume that I require xorg-server ?

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@ianporter You probably just need to downgrade to xorg-server 1.18? Did you do that already?

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Nope, I have not that :(

I was reading here : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Xorg_repositories but their is not a xorg-server 1.18 version..

Is there any recommendations on how to downgrade via pacman ? (if possible) that will always keep in line with the AMDGPU-PRO version ?

thanks very much for getting back to myself.

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@JontySR : thanks very much, that sorted it.

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