uninstall catalyst [resolved]

[ragequit]

K, turns out there was a relatively easy solution. I can delete this thread if needed.

ran the installer for the version of the driver I had with --extract

Code:

$ sudo sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --extract
Created directory fglrx-install.noDM9j
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver-13.251.........
$ sudo chmod -R 777 fglrx-install.noDM9j/
$ cd fglrx-install.noDM9j/
$ sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh
$ sudo reboot

14.4 still said the old driver was there so I did it one more time with --force

Code:

$ cd fglrx-install.noDM9j/
$ sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh --force
Forcing uninstall of AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver.
No integrity verification is done.
cat: /usr/share/ati/libGLdir.txt: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/ati/libGLdir.txt': No such file or directory
restore of system environment completed

Uninstall fglrx driver complete.
For detailed log of uninstall, please see /etc/ati/fglrx-uninstall.log
System must be rebooted to avoid system instability and potential data loss.

$ sudo reboot

install 14.4 like normal.

works now :-)>