Upgrade free drivers to Catalyst

Hello everyone
        I must first say that my exposure to linux is limited to basic commands like cd, ls,cp, chmod etc. I was looking for a good distro that would let me install kde4, and have a good package manager. I zeroed in on Arch Linux. I managed to install Arch Linux without a lot of hassles (I just followed the beginner's guide on the wiki). I am running Arch on a Dell Studio 1555, and have got almost everything to work.
        There is a minor issue that is bothering me though. The laptop has the ATI HD 4570 graphics card. I installed the radeonhd driver first. However, I cannot configure my KDE4 desktop to use OpenGL. I can only use XRender (in the configuration window). On selecting OpenGL from the dropdown, I get an error saying that my system is not capable of using opengl. This appeared, to me, to be a driver problem. I installed the other free driver (xf86-ati), subsequently changed the driver name in xorg.conf, and I still cannot use openGL.
         I am contemplating trying Catalyst, to see if I can get openGL to work. Now, after reading the wiki, I still have a few questions pertaining to Catalyst installation. Do I need to uninstall the old drivers first? If yes, then what command is to be used to uninstall them. Also, can I uninstall the drivers from KDE itself or do I need to stop Xserver before doing it.
         I tried googling it, but couldn't find anything conclusive. I would appreciate any help.
Thanks and Regards,
Dev

If you look at the ATI Wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … st_driver>) it is made very clear, that catalyst is not supported by xorg 1.7, if you use a stock kernel. So, in general, the wiki is right in saying that you can use both drivers. For catalyst, either use xorg < 1.7 or a custom kernel.

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