Re: Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió:
>> Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
>>
>> > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió:
>> >> It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do
>> >> this; starting and stopping the the Xserver doesn't get the new driver
>> >> working correctly)
>> >
>> > About this, have you ever tried this?:
>> > 1- Stop the X server;
>> > 2- 'rmmod fglrx';
>> > 4- Re-start X server
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >>
>> Hi Gabriel,
>> That's a cool suggestion. I'll try it the next time I upgrade. Thanks for
>> the tip. You might try using the debs created directly from the
>> ATI-installer from the ATI website. Maybe you'll have better luck. Those
>> are the ones I always use and they haven't failed me yet.
>
> Ok, so I went to the amd page and downloaded the installer from them.
> As normal user i run:
> $ ./ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/lenny
>
> And it yields:
> ----
> Generating package: Debian/lenny
> Package build failed!
> Package build utility output:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package fglrx-installer
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 8.501-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ATI Technologies Inc.
> <http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html>
> debian/rules build
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
> Can't exec "debian/rules": Permission denied
> at /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage line 475.
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build failed with unknown exit
> code -1
> Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.oN9030
> ----
>
> Also tried as root with no luck (same error).
>
> I googled around a bit and all I could find was people with the
> "Permission denied" error because they forgot to give 755 permissions to
> the installer.
>
>
Hi Gabriel,
You have to run that command as root or use sudo. Sorry, I should have
mentioned that.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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