Re: ATI driver dependency hell
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:42:28PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> After installing the ATI fglrx driver and modifying the xlibmesa-gl-dev
> package not to depend on a specific version of xlibmesa-gl, each time I
> want to dist-upgrade, a new version of xlibmesa-gl-dev is to be
> installed and apt wants to remove the fglrx package.
>
> How do I tell apt that it can shove xlibmesa-gl and install
> xlibmesa-gl-dev no matter what it depends on?
>
I haven't found an answer to that question. I will tell you that at
some point I just got tired of fixing dependencies, putting hold on
packages (which happens a lot if yoyu are running sid + ati
binaries), and ditched the whole ati binary, settling for a
vesa. Vesa doesn't give me the best performance (for instance, allows
me to switch to console only during the first 2-3 minutes of X
running), but for me is more less acceptable, since I don't play many
games that require heavy X performance. It is a pitty, with Radeon
9800.
HTH.
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