Re: ati radeon 9600 problem

[robsims@robsims.ipf.fc.hp.com (Rob Sims)]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:27:25AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:

> The fglrx .deb file produced by alien creates a file conflict so dpkg
> then refuses to upgrade libmesa etc later. Instructions in other posts
> will fix things for you.
> 
> But for the benefit of others.... rather than following the ATI
> instructions, do the following (from
> http://www.nanonanonano.net/linux/debiannx7010 :)
> 	
> # alien fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm
> # dpkg-divert --package fglrx --divert /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.libmesa-gl \
>             /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> # dpkg -i fglrx_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb
 
I have found this doesn't work.  libGL.so.1.2 is protected from
libmesa-gl upgrades, but libGL.so.1 gets screwed up:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 681072 Sep 28 06:09 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     12 Oct 10 08:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     20 Nov  3 20:47 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.distrib
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 798658 May 11  2004 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 437344 Sep 28 06:09 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.distrib

The "distrib" version is libmesa-gl's.  I've tried also diverting
libGL.so.1, but it doesn't help:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     12 Oct 10 08:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.distrib -> libGL.so.1.2

I guess the problem is that fglrx packages (via alien) don't have 
libGL.so.1 in them.
-- 
Rob