Bug#640499: libxvmc: please add multiarch support
> > Because if there's two things in the world I don't care about it's
> > wine and the nvidia driver. So I won't spend any of my free time
> > trying to unbreak them when I've got more important things to do.
>
> This is not just about wine, there are other 32bit-only apps requiring
> OpenGL. Google Earth has been mentioned.
32-bit Second-Life viewers are also affected, including the only one with
good mesh upload support(*), Firestorm.
Firestorm is LGPL - like most SL viewers, it is based on Linden Labs
open source release of their viewer code.
BTW, i can confirm that Sebastien Noel's multiarch libxvmc1 packages at
http://twolife.be/debian/todo/xvmc/ solve the problem, and allowed me to
install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386.
(*) I don't use SL at all, personally, so I'm just passing on what i've
been told by my partner who is an avid SL creator. After I upgraded
to nvidia 304.48-1 last weekend, it broke the Linux 32-bit Firestorm
SL viewer (there is no 64 bit version). I installed the latest 64-bit
"Singularity" SL-viewer for her but it can't do the mesh uploads she
needs, it's apparently better suited for SL users rather than SL
creators.
craig
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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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