[SOLVED] Missing Kernel Headers for Catalyst

Hello Everyone,
I am a new Arch guy! I am from the ubuntu world. Love the new arch install, I have installed my own DE.
I use a Radeon HD 68xx so I need the catalyst drivers.
I have tried installing them via: sudo pacman -S catalyst-dkms catalyst-utils (per the wiki)
It gets to the end and gives me this message:
DKMS: add completed.
Error! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 3.6.2-1-ARCH cannot be found at
/usr/lib/modules/3.6.2-1-ARCH/build or /usr/lib/modules/3.6.2-1-ARCH/source.
error: command failed to execute correctly
Can anybody assist on how I get the kernel headers? As far as I understood, they should be included in Arch.
Last edited by luis84 (2012-10-19 03:08:17)

drewofdoom wrote:
do this:
sudo pacman -Sy linux-headers
Don't use 'pacman -Sy foo' - it may lead to breakage https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89328

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Thanks for the help guys. If I can get a regular kernel working with Nvidia support, great, if not, great. With your help I got a RT kernel working and that's a must for audio recording.
Zaephen.
It is easy to get your non-rt kernel to work with nvidia... just download the pkgbuild for nvidia-beta... change the name to so it does not conflict... I usually change the name of the RT drivers to nvidia-beta-rt... but since you already have them installed as nvidia-beta... you could change it to nvidia-beta-vanilla or anything really... then edit the `uname -r` line so that it points to the proper kernel... pretty sure it is 2.6.31-ARCH... if that doesn't work... just boot into your vanilla kernel and build the package from there leaving the `uname -r' line as is but making sure to change the package name so it doesn't conflict. Walla! two drivers installed and the proper one will load with each kernel.
Zaephen wrote:
ngoonee wrote:
Hmm... are you sure you have the RT kernel? Forced preemption? I couldn't build the nvidia drivers on mine.
As for having nvidia drivers for both kernels, its quite simple. Just install nvidia-beta for the main kernel and copy the PKGBUILD (rename the package to nvidia-beta-rt or something like that) and install that on the RT kernel.
Yes I have both the regular Arch kernel and the RT kernel.
This may sound dumb but, can anyone tell me how to distinguish between kernels when I install them like I did the -ice kernel? I have the ice kernel installed as posted above with the RT patch. Now I'm going to try and install another -ice kernel only this time I'm not going to have the RT patch applied. Won't this install over my present -ice kernel if I don't tell it to call it something else? How can I call it something else?
Zaephen.
Yes it will... you will need to edit the package name and as well dig through your kernel config and edit the LOCAL VERSION variable. Why do you want to have 3 kernels installed though?
Last edited by ugkbunb (2009-09-21 16:14:13)

[SOLVED] Where to find older kernel headers

Hi,
I'm currently stuck on kernel 3.8.11-1 x64 on my netbook as kernel 3.9.2 won't boot - basically hangs while grub tries to start the kernel. Had the same issue with Fedora so I know that it's kernel specific....
Unfortunately my NIC requires that I build the compat-wireless drivers in order to get the alx module in my system. Using the older kernel however, where do I find the headers for it?
Basically I need to populate my /lib/modules with the 3.8.11-1-ARCH bunch; unfortunately my USB boot stick has version 3.8.10 which won't work.
Can anyone help me out?
Also why do the older kernels and related modules etc... get removed so fast from the repo? Shouldn't the older ones be kept for a while at least so if anyone (like me and plenty of others) have issues they can revert back easily without needing to downgrade by finding an older package from somewhere?
Thanks.
Last edited by JohnnySSH (2013-05-19 06:22:12)

Excellent. Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.
Ok did a bit of "housekeeping" and appended [SOLVED] to all my 3 threads so far :-)
P.s. I like Arch it seems a lot as it's kinda hackery since you have to build from scrach and the chroot install is cool too - I think it suites my style of being very CLI heavy
Coupled with a 'real' DEC VTxxx terminal not emulation I think Arch would be the best thing since Ethernet!!
Last edited by JohnnySSH (2013-05-19 06:27:43)

[SOLVED] Kernel panic for an unknown reason

[Solved] Steps done to solve it:
0. Panic because I couldn't play starcraft2 (this step is sooo important! ;)
1. Updated my mirrorlist.
2. Forced a refresh on the package list from the new mirrorlist. "pacman -Syy"
3. Downgraded the kernel.
4. Deleted the latest kernel package from the pacman cache.
5. Updated the system. (pacman -Syu)
6. Thanked lilsirecho for helping out!
7. Profit
Hi all
I just did a "pacman -Syu" this afternoon and after that I'm getting kernel panics for unknown reasons.
edit: I had kernel 3.0.4 befure syu and I have kernel 3.0.7 now. I tried downgrading wine and the kernel with no success.
It first happened when I tried to run StarCraft2 with wine. I even created a post looking for help because of that.
Later on I tested another game, just in case, and it crashed too.
Looks like a wine problem, right? Or even a graphics driver problem.
That's what I thought too. But then I tried to update with "yaourt -Syu --aur" and in the first package compression it freezed once again. And it does fail everytime I try to update with yaourt during the compression phase.
What do this situations have in common?
My opinion is that they all require a lot of resources. StarCraft 2 puts my PC at 100% almost all the time. The other game is pretty old, but it freezed during an "environment loading" phase, right when the map was loading. The compression phase of yaourt also consumes a lot of resources.
This is my view of this problem, but I could be completely wrong.
What I need is help finding what is the real source of this kernel panics. I don't know where to look for the logs or the error reports when a kernel panic occurs.
I hope someone can help me trace the problem somehow. I think I'm lost
ty in advance.
cheers!
Last edited by fatum (2011-11-10 23:16:10)

lilsirecho wrote:
Possibly caused by a mirror download.
Perhaps you need to revert kernel and insure you have the latest mirrorlist and then syu again.
When I saw your response I thought: "Why should that be true? I downgraded the kernel with no success. Doesn't make much sense".
But then I did what you said:
Downgraded the kernel back to 3.0.4.
Moved the latest mirrorlist.pacnew I had to be the mirrorlist in use.
Then did a "pacman -Syyu".
And, miraculously, it works fine now.
How in the world did you know that could be the reason? It would have been the last possibility I would have thought about, no doubt about that
Thank you very much lilsirecho. Your post really helped me.
Not gonna mark this as SOLVED yet. Yesterday I marked my other thread as solved too soon and I regretted my decision.
I will leave a 1week time-frame to be 100% sure that it is fixed, just in case.

[SOLVED] VMplayer no kernel headers

Hello all,
Just installed VMPlayer via the following link:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … n.2FPlayer
and when I run vmware-modconfig --console --install-all I receive the following error:
gcc and kernel headers must be installed.
I installed via:
pacman -S base-devel
It appeared to install everything, however I still get the error.
I checked this link:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75988
but that was not for player.
all help is appreciated.
--nixIT
Last edited by nixIT (2011-10-10 02:18:18)

It's written right here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … m.5B....5D :-)

[SOLVED] Missing Kernel Headers for Catalyst

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