Problems with Ati Propietary drivers, Yaourt

Im an ubuntu refugee and a nub-zilla i will try to include as much information as possible and hope fuly get some help. Thanks in advance!
Arch x86_64
I am attempting to install the propietary ati drivers using yaourt from aur
I have base and base-devel installed (notsure if that matters)
to find it i issed th command: yaourt catalyst-utils
the first option is the one i attempt to install
yaourt -S /aur/catalyst-utils 9.8-1
everything goes smoothly until the very end
"Finished making: catalyst 9.8-1 x86_64"
"Continue installing catalyst utils? [Y/n]
y
Password
"loading package data..."
"checking dependencies..."
"error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet"
"error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U"
"error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)"
": : catalyst-utils: conflicts with libgl"
==>WARNING: You package is saved in blah blah blah
any suggestions as to how to get this working would be amazingly helpful, im such a nub that im not sure which part of all of this information is useful
anyway thanks again!

I have another problem. I install everything properly, reboot my system and dmesg shows fglrx has loaded fine (added it to rc.conf). But when I startx my monitor is left black and my system unresponsive. Cannot get a log for this attempt of x session (not even with startx > xlog). And following the wiki does not solve my problem (it says to delete /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.
Kernel: 2.6.30-ARCH x86_64
X: xorg-server 1.6.3.901-1
Last edited by ldvx (2009-09-12 03:06:08)

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apologies for my numbnut newbie-ness.

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