Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com> writes:
> I wonder if anyone has recently upgraded the fglrx ATI driver
> from version 8.40.4 to 8.42.3, like I have done. OpenGL stopped
> working after the upgrade and I am not able to figure out why.
>
> The first time I run an OpenGL application, it just sits there
> forever waiting for something. If I break it and re-run it, it starts
> normally but it does not work (except fglrxinfo, which returns the
> right driver string).
With video, I've found that opengl is broken. On the other hand xv
works now (but xv video scaling is horrible: there's no smoothing of
low res video).
> In one of my numerous tries to uninstall/reinstall the
> package, I once bumped in a "libGL.so not found" error. Yesterday I
> fiddled a bit with the diversions fglrx-driver installs, but all I
> obtained was confusion. I looked in the READMEs and googled a bit, but
> I did not find anything relevant.
Yes, I've seen some error message related of diversion of libGL while
installing fglrx-driver.
I had to:
- de-install fglrx-driver
- remove all libGL diversion (with dpkg-divert)
- re-install fglrx-driver
HTH
--
Dominique Dumont
"Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they
need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner
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