Re: New ATI fglrx drivers work with AMD64

[Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net>]

Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> > Hi, I'd just like to give the list a heads up that the new ATI fglrx
> > drivers actually work with amd64.  They're only available (as usual) in
> > rpm's but I hacked together Flavio's debian packages and with a bit of
> > manual copying around it works.  
>
>
> Can you tell me how did you do it?
> I tried just alien-ing the rpm but fails because it tries to overwrite 
> `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', owned by xlibmesa-gl package.

I added the following diversion manually:
diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by fglrx

$ man dpkg-divert

Then you don't have to worry about --force-overwrite or other options,
it will just work and leave the original file intact (renamed).

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