Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
Davide Mancusi wrote:
> Jonathan Kaye ha scritto:
>> Following your message I checked out nexuiz and it runs fine with my card
>> and driver. I'm surprised that running the ATI-Installer gave you error
>> messages. I see 2 differences between our systems:
>> 1. You are using a 64bit kernel and I'm using a 32bit one (although I
>> have an AMD64 Athlalon Chip.
>> 2. I'm running lenny and you're running sid.
>> I think the 32 and 64bit versions use the same installation file, yes?
>> So if it's not related to one of those 2 differences I'm stumped. I don't
>> understand why just running the installation program with the --buildpkg
>> switch causes error in your system and not in mine.
>
> Yes, Jonathan, as I hinted at in the previous post (see external link)
> the problem was that the ATI package has not been properly updated yet
> to reflect the changes that took place in the way Debian organises the
> GL libraries (they used to be in /usr/X11R6/lib*). It is possible to
> work around this by uncompressing the ATI package and creating an
> appropriate symlink. This happens only when building for amd64.
>
> In the meantime, I have found out that nexuiz runs fine if I run it
> with the -safe switch; it runs windowed and I think some effects are
> disabled. Probably ATI broke some of the GLX extensions in the 8.40 -->
> 8.42 upgrade.
>
> Thank you very much for your help anyway! I have posted a bug on the
> ATI bugzilla and if something pops up, I will post here again.
>
> Davide
>
Well done, Davide. I'm glad you got it working.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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