Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)
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Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:34 -0700
> Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>> Liam O'Toole wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700
>>> Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [SNIP]
>>>
[snip]
>> now imagine this, it turns out that ATI tools modified my
>> /etc/profile (2005/07/13 or before):
>>
>> ### START ATI FGLRX ###
>> ### Automatically modified by ATI Proprietary driver scripts
>> ### Please do not modify between START ATI FGLRX and END ATI FGLRX
>> ...
>>
>> doing nasty things with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH which
>> is why it didn't work. One simple command (unset LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH)
>> and it works again.
>
> I would be really furious in your position. Presumably the Debian
> packages are better behaved.
Is there an ATI Debian package?
AFAICT, the NVIDIA binary driver install app (not the Debian
package, but the one directly from nvidia.com) is well-behaved.
(The only file it seems to modify is xorg.conf, and puts it's files
in standard locations.)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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