Re: ATI Driver Installer ATI Installer Version: 8.27.10

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Mitch wrote:
> On 08/09/06 00:12 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >   Has anyone tried the new ati driver installer. Here is what I did:
> >
> > Well now all I get is: Mesa GLX Indirect (*). Is there a step that I
> > am missing ?
>
> I use those drivers on two machines.  I build my modules with make-kpkg,
> but that's not important.  The problem is that fglrx looks for dri
> drivers in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, but it doesn't get
> installed there.  You'll find it in /usr/lib/dri.  I'm pretty sure
> you'll need to mkdir that modules dir and then I just ln -s the dri dir.
>
> You can confirm this with 'setenv LIBGL_DEBUG verbose' (tcsh, translate
> to yours) before running glxinfo.

  BTW you can also strace fglrxinfo which will reveal what it's trying 
to open

  you can specify where openGL programs look for the driver (sh and 
derivates syntax):

LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib/dri"
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH

  for csh and derivates: setenv LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH "/usr/lib/dri"

	erik